Re: Phone numbers and form fields

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Michael G Schwern wrote:
> To log into T-Mobile's web site you give them your phone number.  Ok.
> 
> 123.456.7890
> 
> "12345678: Your phone number should be 10 digits.  For example: 1234567890"
> 
> How hard is it to strip out non-digits from input, people?!
> 
> I see this all the time.  Phone numbers.  Credit card numbers.  Postal codes.
> I mean, christ.  $input =~ s/\D+//g;

Don't even get me started about places that do not understand non-US
phone numbers.  Or addresses - a particularly vile subspecies of this
being forms that require entering a US state.  That's why I am often
a 112 year old granny from Alaska with the phone number of 555-1234.

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biologist word we use for 'stable'.  It is 'dead'." -- Jack Cohen

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  • Phone numbers and form fields Michael G Schwern 21:21 on 03 Mar 2005
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