Steve, I see your post on this list almost daily and I am wondering... What
is your name? Is it Mark Stevens or Steve Willis. I am confused.

Bill K


> From: "Mark Stevens (Steve) Willis" <stevewillis@mac.com>
> Reply-To: FileMaker Talk <fmpro@lists.lassosoft.com>
> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:36:13 -0700
> To: FileMaker Talk <fmpro@lists.lassosoft.com>
> Subject: Re: Custom Function for Phone# Formatting
>
> Our solution was to change the function we're using to recognize a plus sign
> (+) as an escape character to defeat the formatting in the function and allow
> free-form formatting for that number.
>
> Country codes are 2-3 characters and you are quite right about the ridiculous
> British government standards for numbers.
>
> It is almost certain that such a function would have to operate in conjunction
> with a country table containing each country's phone code and a formatting
> mask for that countries phone# format.
>
> Steve
> --
> Steve Willis
> stevewillis at mac.com
>
> An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
> James McNeill Whistler
>
> On Jan 12, 2010, at 2:05 PM, Rennie Innis wrote:
>
>> Wow! Quite an article! http://tinyurl.com/5wc69g
>>
>> Beezwax has a number of developers that could take on an 'International
>> Telephone Formatting' custom function. However, if Britain's
>> specifications/recommendations are any indication, accommodating the world's
>> variety of telephone formats would be a valiant and lengthy piece of work.
>>
>> Are any of you on this list interested in collaborating on the Mother of All
>> Telephone Formatting custom functions? It seems to me that if we collect the
>> best of the best, and then post it to this list, and perhaps to Brian
>> Dunning's site, and others, that this would a) be a useful development tool,
>> and b) bring order to the galaxy.
>>
>> Comments?
>>
>> Rennie
>> Beezwax
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jan 12, 2010, at 2:01 AM, Colin MacGregor wrote:
>>
>>> Do most other countries have consistent phone number formats as in the US?
>>> We don't in the UK - as described here:
>>> http://tinyurl.com/5wc69g
>>>
>>> Colin
>>>
>>>
>>>>> I need a phone number formatting function that would handle both domestic
>>>>> US (XXX-XXX-XXXX xXXX) and overseas numbers with country codes as dialed
>>>>> from the US (+XX-XXX-XXXXXXX and the like).
>>>>>
>>>>> I've been to Brian Dunning's site to see if I could find, but none of them
>>>>> there do the job. I can found single functions that would do US numbers,
>>>>> as well as Swedish, Dutch, and a host of other countries' formats, but
>>>>> nothing that is what I'm looking for.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there some universal Swiss-Army-Knife custom phone function that does
>>>>> it all like I want?
>>
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