Thanks for your help everyone!  All these solutions are great!  

Joanna, that's a very good point about international numbers.  However
at this point I can get away with not worrying about it... whew!  It
definitely sounds a lot more complicated.

Cheers,
Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf
Of Joanna Kurki
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 5:15 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [REBOL] Re: Newbie help: Parsing mobile email address

At 18:45 11.6.2002 +1200, you wrote:
> > I'm wondering if there's a more efficient way to do it (shortcuts in
>REBOL)
> >
> > Basically I'm trying to do this...
> >
> > Mobile Email Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

As international user, i would like to point out that many countries
have 
totally different scheme on telephone numbers than USA. So if you put a 
checking routine to web form (for example) don't assume all phone
numbers 
have same length as yours... This has happened with some websites and
it's 
extremely annonying ... :(

For example here in Finland..

Local numbers are between 5 to 9 digits
Area codes are 2 or 3 digits (from 02 to 019)
International  prefix for us is 358 (I think?)

For example: (# represents any number, expect 1st can't be zero, I could

give real working numbers but I'm not sure owners of those phones would 
like if i did so :-)
09 ########
014 ######

When giving these to foreign people country code is added and Zero
dropped.

358 9 ########
358 14 ######

So it can be anything between 8 to 12 digits, and you can't tell area
code 
apart without knowing local system.


And above does not take mobile numbers into account (those usually have
two 
digit area code 04, then 1-2 digit Operator code, then 5-8 numbers)

Joanna




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