Write a script to ring it. If it dials, then its a valid phone. Now write another script to text it. If you get a successful delivery, then its a mobile phone. Done!
I don't know the real answer, unfortunately :'( 2009/6/29 Tim Kersten <[email protected]>: > > 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 ^,^ > > > > -- Daniel Kersten. Leveraging dynamic paradigms since the synergies of 1985. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
