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From: gtisqr!toddi@nsr.bioeng.washington.edu (Todd Inch)
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Subject: Translating Alpha Phone Numbers
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In article <8294@accuvax.nwu.edu> mailrus!uflorida!rm1!bapat@
uunet.uu.net (Bapat) want's to convert phone numbers with letters 
to numeric, and has access to a Unix machine.

The following should do it.  "tr" will translate a character in the
first string to a corresponding character in the second string.

BTW:  tr "[a-z]" "[A-Z]"    will convert lower-case strings to all
uppercase, which is irrelevant to this topic, but useful.

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:
#  Shell script to convert alpha-containing phone number to all numeric.
#  Put phone number on command line or wait for prompt.
#
if [ -z "$1" ]
  then
    echo "Phone number containing characters? \c"
    read phnnum
  else
    phnnum="$1"
fi
if echo "$phnnum" | grep 'q\|Q\|z\|Z' > /dev/null
  then
    echo "There's no Q or Z on the phone dial."
    exit 1
fi
echo "$phnnum" | tr "aAbBcCdDeEfFgGhHiIjJkKlLmMnNoOpPrRsStTuUvVwWxXyY" \
                    "222222333333444444555555666666777777888888999999"
exit 
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Todd Inch, System Manager, Global Technology, Mukilteo WA  (206) 742-9111
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