Bill: Give a look at the R:Base eXtreme 9.1 Command Index ( CommandIndex.pdf ) found in your C:\RBTI\RBG91_XX folder ( replace XX with 32 or 64, whichever you have ).
Page 80, Section 1.5.9.1 '||format' gives a pretty thorough, eye-crossing (pardon the pun) treatment of all the data input/output formatting options. From the bottom of page 81 through page 86 you have examples for various countries of phone number and other formats. I found this very useful in separating the data I need to store from the formatting which can be delivered in code. Hope this helps. bruce chitiea safesectors inc. > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [RBASE-L] - telephone number formatting > From: William Stacy <[email protected]> > Date: Sun, March 27, 2011 12:00 pm > To: [email protected] (RBASE-L Mailing List) > > > Am restructuring my telephone number table so that just in case there is a > way to direct dial from an Rbase 9.1 application. I'd want it to be > consistent with whatever kind of dialers there are, which means like a 10 > integer string for a cell phone in the USA, adding a 1 if it's a land line > in the usa dialing to another usa long distance, or a 7 int. string if it's > a local call, and something else for each if it's an overseas call. What > else is there? > > Has anyone tackled this question? i'm thinking a tel column that is a text > type of at least 11 chars (any longer ones in existence, esp foreign?) > > I would think that such an autodial column would have to have no hyphens, > parens, etc. > > Thanks. > > Bill > -- > William Stacy, O.D. > > Please visit my website by clicking on : > > http://www.folsomeye.net --- RBASE-L =======================3D=======================3 D= TO POST A MESSAGE TO ALL MEMBERS: Send a plain text email to [email protected] (Don't use any of these words as your Subject: INTRO, SUBSCRIBE, UNSUBSCRIBE, SEARCH, REMOVE, SUSPEND, RESUME, DIGEST, RESEND, HELP) =======================3D=======================3 D= TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [email protected] In the message SUBJECT, put just one word: INTRO =======================3D=======================3 D= TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Send a plain text email to [email protected] In the message SUBJECT, put just one word: UNSUBSCRIBE =======================3D=======================3 D= TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: Send a plain text email to [email protected] In the message SUBJECT, put just one word: SEARCH-n (where n is the number of days). In the message body, place any text to search for. =======================3D=======================3 D=
