OK As it turns out, it is nearly impossible to format a series of digits to an international format, separating the different parts by delimiters like - and (). Refer to web link for details.
https://www.tipard.com/mobile/international-phone-number-format.html In short, the country code can be 1 to 3 digits, the dial out code *should* be 00 but some countries don't comply with the standard, and use a different code, which can be 2 to 3 digits, etc. To internationalize formatPhone() I would need a database of each country and how they format their phone numbers, and boo on that idea. Here is my formatPhone() code as it stands for US and Canada. (I think it is included in the Master Library as well.) If the phone number is not not 7 or 10 digits after extracting the extension, then it returns the original value. FUNCTION formatPhone thePhoneNumber, theFormat -- text -- mid IF theFormat is empty THEN put "classic" into theFormat END IF IF thePhoneNumber is empty THEN return thePhoneNumber END IF if "ext" is in thePhoneNumber then put offset("ext", thePhoneNumber) into tChar put char tChar to -1 of thePhoneNumber into theExtension put char 1 to tChar -1 of thePhoneNumber into thePhoneNumber else if "x" is in thePhoneNumber then put offset("x", thePhoneNumber) into tChar put char tChar to -1 of thePhoneNumber into theExtension put char 1 to tChar -1 of thePhoneNumber into thePhoneNumber end if REPEAT WITH i = 1 to the number of chars of thePhoneNumber IF char i of thePhoneNumber is a number THEN put char i of thePhoneNumber AFTER theNewValue END IF END REPEAT put the length of theNewValue into theLength IF theLength is not among the items of "7,10" THEN return thePhoneNumber && theExtension exit formatPhone END IF put "-" BEFORE char -4 of theNewValue IF theLength is 10 THEN IF theFormat is "classic" THEN put ") " AFTER char 3 of theNewValue put "(" BEFORE theNewValue ELSE put "-" AFTER char 3 of theNewValue END IF END IF IF theExtension is not empty THEN put " " & theExtension AFTER theNewValue return theNewValue END formatPhone Bob S On Sep 9, 2022, at 08:51 , Klaus major-k via use-livecode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com<mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> wrote: Hi Bob, Am 09.09.2022 um 17:38 schrieb Bob Sneidar via use-livecode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com<mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>>: I have a function called formatPhone() I can modify it to support international notation and send it to you. thank you, will then store it for future use. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode