From: Harry Kakueki <list.push@...>
Date: 2007-05-04T10:43:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there a better way to do this?

> >
> I am trying to come up with a "generic" formatting routine so that I
> could feed it something like sform("123456789", "000-00-0000") or
> sform("1234567890", "(000) 000-0000") or sform("123456", "00/00/00") and
> it would work.  I could easily do something like you suggest, and for
> some cases it might be better, but I want something I can for any number
> of formats.  Thanks for the input.
>
>
Well, that's different :)
So, you want to grab the first 10 digits and ignore beyond that?
Look into regular expressions.
Harry

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