--On Sunday, August 28, 2005 10:35 PM +0200 Michael Ströder
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
For Stanford, phone numbers are our second largest nightmare
;-)
people get to
enter their phone numbers into a web application, and you get very
interesting things like "N-ONE". :P
Well, if they really use one web application you can make your life
easier by immediately checking the input format there.
Unfortunately, it isn't that simple. Stanford is its own tel-co, which
means we support all sorts of interesting things, like 5 digit numbers
(first number is your stanford local prefix) and text numbers (5-HELP). So
nearly anything is valid. The "none" was more accurately "5-NONE" or
something like that, which is perfectly valid under our scheme, but not the
persons real number. ;)
We do have a routine that strips out characters illegal under the
telephoneNumber syntax, and rejects a few other things, but we are quite
limited in what we can do.
--Quanah
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Quanah Gibson-Mount
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ITSS/Shared Services
Stanford University
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