converting phone numbers to alphabets

[fo]

Does anyone know if there is a free code available to convert numbers to
text and/or text to numbers?

Thanks

[michel]

Re: converting phone numbers to alphabets

numbers to text is impossble, since per number, you have multiple letters.
letters to numbers would be an easy one to write yourself, wouldn't it?

Mich

"fo" <somewhere@down under.com.au> wrote in message
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> Does anyone know if there is a free code available to convert numbers to
> text and/or text to numbers?
>
> Thanks
>
>[/color]

[Alvaro G Vicario]

Re: converting phone numbers to alphabets

*** fo wrote/escribió (Wed, 7 Jul 2004 16:08:09 +1000):[color=blue]
> Does anyone know if there is a free code available to convert numbers to
> text and/or text to numbers?[/color]

As you as you use a numeric variable in a context that requires strings,
it's automatically converted. E.G:

<?
$foo=33;
echo "Foo=$foo";
?>

As about the opposite, you can use cast operators:

<?
$foo=(int)'33';
?>

Since phone numbers usually have dots, parenthesis and dashes, you should
remove them first. A simple regex will do:

<?
$foo=eregi_repl ace('[^0-9]+', '', '902-99 99 99'); // Untested!
?>

Also, please note than handling phone numbers as text will remove leading
zeroes.


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[Geoff Berrow]

Re: converting phone numbers to alphabets

I noticed that Message-ID: <1ruuwzj34sjsy. 16eh22yempkml$. dlg@40tude.net>
from Alvaro G Vicario contained the following:
[color=blue]
>Also, please note than handling phone numbers as text will remove leading
>zeroes.[/color]

Don't you mean 'handling phone numbers as numbers'.


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[Alvaro G Vicario]

Re: converting phone numbers to alphabets

*** Geoff Berrow wrote/escribió (Wed, 07 Jul 2004 07:38:09 +0100):[color=blue][color=green]
>>Also, please note than handling phone numbers as text will remove leading
>>zeroes.[/color]
>
> Don't you mean 'handling phone numbers as numbers'.[/color]

Yes, sorry.

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[fo]

Re: converting phone numbers to alphabets

What I am looking for to more or less this

http://www.cheapnumbers.com/cgi-bin/spell.cgi

"fo" <somewhere@down under.com.au> wrote in message
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> Does anyone know if there is a free code available to convert numbers to
> text and/or text to numbers?
>
> Thanks
>
>[/color]

[Chung Leong]

Re: converting phone numbers to alphabets

"fo" <somewhere@down under.com.au> wrote in message
news:ccg9qp$nc0 $1@otis.netspac e.net.au...[color=blue]
> What I am looking for to more or less this
> http://www.cheapnumbers.com/cgi-bin/spell.cgi
> "fo" <somewhere@down under.com.au> wrote in message
> news:ccg40e$iav $1@otis.netspac e.net.au...[color=green]
> > Does anyone know if there is a free code available to convert numbers to
> > text and/or text to numbers?
> >
> > Thanks[/color][/color]

Not that I'm aware of. Shouldn't be too hard to code though. Just take a
word list, convert words with less than 7 letters to phone#, then insert
them into a hash table, something along the line of

array (
3456 => array('baby', 'dog', 'dingo'),
1234567 => array ( 'chicken', 'clinton', 'sweden' ... )
)

Serialize the hash table into a file. To retrieve a list of possible match,
just load the table and do a lookup. The trick I guess is finding
conbination of words. Should still be simply if you limit yourself to two
word conbinations.

[Geoff Berrow]

Re: converting phone numbers to alphabets

I noticed that Message-ID: <ccg9qp$nc0$1@o tis.netspace.ne t.au> from fo
contained the following:
[color=blue]
>What I am looking for to more or less this
>http://www.cheapnumbers.com/cgi-bin/spell.cgi[/color]

Ahhh..

tricky...

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[Markus Ernst]

Re: converting phone numbers to alphabets

"Chung Leong" <chernyshevsky@ hotmail.com> wrote

[...]
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> The trick I guess is finding conbination of words.[/color]

I think that's actually what the OP would like the script to do. Quite
tricky, maybe somehow like this:

// make array of digit's character values
$digits = array(array ("&amp", "@"), array("a", "b", "c"), array("d", "e",
"f"), ... );

// make array of number
$number = chunk_split((st rval($number), 1, ':');
$array = explode(":",$nu mber);
array_pop($arra y);

// Then make complex loops to make every possible combination of characters
and compare them with word list; I don't have the time to figure this out -
as the number length and thus the depth of loops vary it might be necessary
to use a function called for every digit of it.

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