On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 11:35:05AM -0500, Chris Browne wrote: > Note: I spent most of yesterday dealing with this very issue, > writing up a total of 31 eye-destroying regular expressions to > generate a pl/tcl function to parse cases that I had handy... I > daresay that even with so many regexps, I was _still_ left with a > reasonably material number that would not be parsed...
I hope you can post that somewhere for others to use... surely it could save a lot of people some time... Or maybe not; I suspect most people just punt on phone numbers, or force them to a very strict format. -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
