I'd recommend removing everything but the digits, and regex is perfect for that: <cfset phone = reReplace(phone, "[^0-9]", "", "all")>
Store the resulting value, and then format it as you desire when displaying. On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 3:34 AM, Azadi Saryev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > rereplace() is looking for a regexp, while you are giving it a literal > string to find and replace... > either use replace() function, or give rereplce() a regexp to match the > characters you want to remove. > something like rereplace(phone, "[\(\)\.-]", "", "all") > > Azadi Saryev > Sabai-dee.com > http://www.sabai-dee.com/ > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've got different phone number formats due to an csv import. I'm > trying to remove > > phone number formating from the database and just have the numbers. As > I parse > > through my phone numbers from a query, this code is throwing errors. > I'm trying to > > get rid of ')', '(', '.' and '-' > > > > <cfset phone = rereplace(phone, "(", "", "all") /> > > <cfset phone = rereplace(phone, ")", "", "all") /> > > <cfset phone = rereplace(phone, ".", "", "all") /> > > <cfset phone = rereplace(phone, "-", "", "all") /> > > > > Thanks > > > > D > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:303962 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
