Eric, and Paul,
To be honest, you're both talking way over my head here. My address book of
over 1600 names has only a handful of non-US phone numbers--most of those
Canadian so there is little difference, one or two in London and that's
about it. I am unfamiliar with international telephone protocol, and the few
times I had to call my friend in London, I took a long time trying to find
out how to dial out of the country. So, I'm not about to even attempt to
modify my script for non-US telephone numbers. Sorry, but if someone wants
that they'll need to do it for themselves.
I don't mean to be unhelpful here. I just don't know enough to do it, and
don't have any need, personally, to learn. I wrote my script for me. It does
what I need it to do, and I am sharing it as is with you all. It's there for
anyone else who wants to adapt it.
On or near 11/14/00 1:59 PM, Eric Hildum at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed:
> If I may make a suggestion: why not use the international standard for
> complete numbers, that is, if the number starts with a plus, the number is
> the complete telephone number including country code. Your script could
> then easily handle the deletion of country code and area code for the
> current location, and add the necessary prefixes for long distance or
> international. Numbers not formatted as complete numbers could be assumed to
> be in area code/number format. Note that the complete number does NOT
> include any toll (typically 1 in the US) or access digits, it is the actual
> phone number only. Including the toll or access digits greatly complicates
> the processing of a telephone number, as noted below.
>
> The length of the telephone number is not a good indication as to its type.
> If I remember correctly, the current maximum length of a valid telephone
> number is 12-16 digits, not including any international or long distance
> access codes, and not including sub-address or calling card information.
> Thus the script below will fail with most telephone numbers in my address
> book.
>
> To make the script more robust, I would add variables for international,
> long distance, and local access codes, as well as provision for deleting the
> country code in addition to the area code.
>
> Some example numbers for you to consider(+country-area/city-CO-DN):
>
> +1-408-555-1212
> +81-3-5226-0000
> +886-2-2313-6700
> +81-90-3456-9875
>
> Eric Hildum
>
> From: Paul Berkowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 12:31:13 -0800
> To: Oneclick-Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: OneClick script for Automatic phone dialing
> Resent-From: Paul Berkowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Resent-To: Entourage mac Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Resent-Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 12:33:57 -0800
>
>
> On 11/14/00 12:10 PM, "Allen Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> If (Length temp) = 10 // Long distance
> AC = SubString temp, 1, 3
> If ((AC = local1) OR (AC = local2)) // Local area codes
> // Don't add a "1" prefix
> Else If (AC = omitLD1)
> theNum = Replace AC, theNum, "" // Delete area code only
> Else
> theNum = "1," & theNum
> End If
> End If
>
> I think it might need a bit extra for non-North American calls?
>
> This can get a bit complicated if you have to remove zeros or 9�s from
> European area codes. E.g. in the UK, people�s numbers will begin something
> like 0171-794-5555. But when you dial from the US beginning with the UK code
> of 44, you dial 44-181-794-5555. However, if you make sure store their phone
> numbers in the Address Book exactly how they should be dialed from home
> rather than copying how the numbers may appear on someone's stationery.,
> then there will always be more than 10 digits, including the country code.
> So you could replace that last End If with
>
> Else If (Length temp) > 10
> theNum = "011," & theNum
> End If
>
> That�s for North American dialing. Other countries should substitute the
> code for international dialing instead of 011, and change the length from 10
> to whatever is the longest national number possible. Similarly, higher up,
> substitute any national code for national long distance instead of Allen�s
> "1," & theNum. Most other countries don�t have such a code, so you can just
> leave that part out. Also many other countries don�t have the US type of
> area code but just incorporate the code in the number. So you�ll have to
> adapt Allen�s script for your own country as appropriate.
>
>
--
Peace,
Allen Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> XNS name: =Allen Watson
A Mac family since 1984
My web page: <http://home.earthlink.net/~allenwatson/>
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