[Dub-pm] Phone numbers
David Cantrell
david at cantrell.org.uk
Tue Oct 19 09:21:29 CDT 2004
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 02:36:32PM +0100, Dermot McNally wrote:
> What the other folks said about 048, stands, but there's a snag trying
> to incorporate enough clevers to handle this into
> Number::Phone::Country. The lookup expects the number you provide to be
> in full international format. Arguably, the number +353-48-12345678 is
> only a pseudo-international number, as I'm not sure if you can dial it
> from anywhere outside ROI.
I'll have to try it. Anyone got a company in the north that they
particularly hate and whose time I can waste trying it out? :-)
> What are you planning? To have numbers of that format as well as the
> +44-28-12345678 equivalent map to a mock-ISO code for NI?
Look at the source for N::P::Country, and how he handles the craziness
that is +1. I'd handle +353 the same way. And +7, +34, and +39.
> FWIW, a while ago I went looking for some modules that would help me
> process phone numbers and help me to decompose them into their
> constituent country, area and base number. (Which is hard without
> country-specific logic to tell you how to infer the area code). I ended
> up growing my own for the most part. My work in progress also has -
> unlike Number::Phone::Country - the concept of where-in-the-world you
> are running it from, which was designed to allow you to render numbers
> in your own country according to local convention. Oh, it supports
> pretty-printing with support for national norms.
Check out my Number::Phone base class, and Number::Phone::UK for an
example that uses it. Yes, you need country-specific logic. Lots of
it. And for most countries, a database.
The authors of some of the other Number::Phone::* modules are very
slowly moving over to that new API, but implementations for more
countries are more than welcome :-)
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