Re: easily search Address Book for phone numbers in various formats?
Re: easily search Address Book for phone numbers in various formats?
- Subject: Re: easily search Address Book for phone numbers in various formats?
- From: Brad Peterson <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:42:43 -0800 (PST)
Hi,
It occurs to me that you might also experiment with
NSString's hasSuffix: method, taking as a match the
first one where either string contains the other as a
suffix.
That way 808-555-1212 and +1 808-555-1212 would be a
match. You might get a few false matches, but probably
not too many to worry about.
HTH
--- Chris Blättermann
<email@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Steve!
>
> A quick-and-dirty solution would be parsing out all
> the characters
> which are not numbers and start the search with the
> modified string.
> Like +808-555-1212 would become 8085551212. Then you
> loop through all
> the contacts, read out the number and convert it the
> same way.
> Comparing these two strings with isEqualToString:.
>
> Another way would be regular expressions, but I'm
> not very good at it.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Chris Blaettermann
>
> Am 11.02.2008 um 12:06 schrieb Stephen Zyszkiewicz:
>
> > I'd like to use the Address Book framework to
> search for phone
> > numbers in various formats. I would like to match
> up a phone number
> > with a contact. The phone number may look like
> +808-555-1212 or
> > 8085551212 or +8085551212. Is there any way to
> easily do this with
> > the AB framework or perhaps someone has figured
> this out already?
> >
> >
> > Thank you!!
> > Steve
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