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Re: UK Caller ID Format Change?


  • To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
  • Subject: Re: UK Caller ID Format Change?
  • From: "Patrick Lidstone" <patrick@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 17:08:56 -0000
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--- In ukha_d@y..., "Mark McCall" <Mark@L...> wrote:
> My HomeVision creates a webpage of caller details.  Using the
lookup file it
> matches names to number.  The format has always been...
>
> "01234-123456"
>
> But since the day before yesterday the hypen has disappeared?!
>
> "01234123456"
>
> Anyone else in the UK seen this?

Not recently, but from time-to-time, yes -- usually it's a moving
hyphen rather than disappearing completely.

The answer is easy enough -- strip out all non-numeric data before
doing the comparison, then it doesn't matter how they bugger about
with the format :-)

Patrick


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