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From: Mark Brader <msb@sq.com>
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Subject: Re: Translating Alpha Phone Numbers
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I was waiting for someone else to point out this nonportability:

> 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

To work on all variants of UNIX, the grep pattern should be '[qQzZ]'.


Mark Brader, SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, utzoo!sq!msb, msb@sq.com