Re: How to split up phone numbers?

Maybe some processing using external libraries? For example
http://code.google.com/p/libphonenumber/ and you may try it there
http://libphonenumber.appspot.com/

Vojta

Dne 20.2.2012 15:49, Andreas napsal(a):
> Hi,
> is there a way to split up phone numbers?
> I know that's a tricky topic and it depends on the national phone
> number format.
> I'm especially interested in a solution for Germany, Swizerland and
> Austria.
>
> I've got everything in a phone number column that makes hardly sense
> like:
> +49432156780
> 0049 4321 5678 0
> 04321/5678-0
> and so on...
> Those 3 samples are actually the same number in different notations.
>
> Aim would be to get a normalized number split up in 4 seperate columns
> nr_nation
> nr_city
> nr_main
> nr_individual
>
> so I end up with
> 49   4321   5678   0     for central
> 49   4321   5678   42   for Mr. Smith
>
> Is this doable?
>
> It would be a start to at least split off nr_nation and nr_city.
>