North East Texas here, we dial 10 digits if it is local . Several area codes in the local calling area cause this. We do add the 1 in front if it is outside the local area. Something to unlearn when visiting areas of the country where they can dial just the seven digits.
Also a good idea to be ready for an area code change/addition at a future point. Hans From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of William Stacy Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2011 2:01 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - telephone number formatting 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
