On my search for information I came across this 2004 post: http://lists.evolt.org/archive/Week-of-Mon-20041206/166952.html
>From the above: You see, unlike more sane telephone companies, Eircom (or rather the Department of Post and Telegraph, which it was part of when the "system" was devised) created a rather ad-hoc scheme, the rationale first being "nobody outside of Dublin is ever going to need a phone", then "nobody outside of the towns is ever going to need a phone", then "nobody in Connacht is ever going to need a phone", then "everybody who's ever going to be getting a line installed already has one", and finally "oh crap! We really screwed that up!" So before I go and attempt a regex or validation function for just landlines in Ireland, does anybody have something similar already done that they might share? Or perhaps any pointers to information necessary to implement this, other than the linked post? Obviously I'm using python, but any other implementation would be useful so that I can port it. Cheers, Tim ^,^ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Python Ireland" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.ie/group/pythonireland?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
