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From: tanner@ki4pv.uucp (Dr. T. Andrews)
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Subject: Re: Parsing Dialed Digits
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Date: 22 Oct 89 12:04:58 GMT
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)> How can I tell whether to take the next two or the next three
)> digits as the country code ?
) It depends on the first two digits.
) If the first two digits are a valid country code, then you do not have
) to look at the third digit.

Sorry, this doesn't work.  Some country codes (mainly for toy
countries) are special cases of others.  Consider "countries" like the
Vatican (looks like a particular exchange in Rome Italy) or San
Marino.  You have to examine rather a lot of digits to decide whether
the call is to Rome Italy or the Vatican.

I believe that the list of country codes posted here some time ago
also listed several French-speaking island countries as having country
codes which started with the French 2 digits and were followed by
another digit or two to specify the country.

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