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Re: easily search Address Book for phone numbers in various formats?
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Re: easily search Address Book for phone numbers in various formats?


  • Subject: Re: easily search Address Book for phone numbers in various formats?
  • From: j o a r <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:10:58 -0800


On Feb 11, 2008, at 9:42 AM, Brad Peterson wrote:

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.


Suffix matching is likely a good idea - In many cases the country code or area code might not be present - But it should probably be viewed as complementary to, and not a replacement for, the earlier suggestion of stripping out all characters that aren't numbers.

j o a r


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