On Dec 4, 2007 8:04 AM, Deepak Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can anyone tell me or point me to a Macro or coldfusion code to convert
> letters to numbers on phone keypad. For example
> ABDG will be 2234
> And this way I have a lot of Names in database and I have to pick first 4
> letters from the name and convert them into 4 digit codes from phone keypad.
<cffunction name="lettersToPhone" returntype="string" output="false">
<cfargument name="stringToConvert" type="string" required="true" />
<cfset var str = left(stringToConvert, 4) />
<cfset var retStr = "" />
<cfset var idx = "" />
<cfloop from="1" to="#len(str)#" index="idx">
<cfswitch expression="#mid(str, idx, 1)#">
<cfcase value="a,b,c">
<cfset retStr = retStr & "2" />
</cfcase>
<cfcase value="d,e,f">
<cfset retStr = retStr & "3" />
</cfcase>
<cfcase value="g,h,i">
<cfset retStr = retStr & "4" />
</cfcase>
<cfcase value="j,k,l">
<cfset retStr = retStr & "5" />
</cfcase>
<cfcase value="m,n,o">
<cfset retStr = retStr & "6" />
</cfcase>
<cfcase value="p,q,r,s">
<cfset retStr = retStr & "7" />
</cfcase>
<cfcase value="t,u,v">
<cfset retStr = retStr & "8" />
</cfcase>
<cfcase value="w,x,y,z">
<cfset retStr = retStr & "9" />
</cfcase>
</cfswitch>
</cfloop>
<cfreturn retStr />
</cffunction>
<cfoutput>#lettersToPhone('ABDG')#</cfoutput>
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