Phone number formating

[Beto Boton]

Hello

I'm using FMSP 4.5 on Mac OSX FMP Adv 14.0

I want to get rid of phone formatting, too many countries too many formats and it is inserting x everywhere.

What I've done :

1- went to Custom Functions and placed a remar on every line of the function fnPhone(text) and IT DID NOT WORK!
Why?

What is the correct procedure to just leave the phone as typed with no special formatting?

I can find every single phone field and remove the function from there but replacing the function would keep the nice work for a rainy day...

 

Cheers

 

Beto Boton

 

// fnPhone(text)
// depending on phone # length, will format accordingly
// Timothy Trimble, www.timothytrimble.info

//  REMOVED FORMATTTIN FROM PHONE FIELDS

// Let (pnum = Substitute( text; [ " "; "" ]; [ "("; ""]; [ ")"; ""]; [ "-"; ""]; [ "."; ""]; [ "x"; ""] ) ;
// Case (Length(pnum) = 7 ; Left(pnum;3) & "-" & Right(pnum;4) ;
//    Length(pnum) = 10 ; "(" & Left(pnum;3) & ")" & Middle(pnum; 4;3) & "-" & Right(pnum;4) ;
//    (Length(pnum) = 11 and Left(pnum;1) = "1") ; "1+(" & Middle(pnum;2;3) & ")" & Middle(pnum;5;3) & "-" & Right(pnum;4) ;
//    (Length(pnum) > 11 and Left(pnum;1) = "1") ; "1+(" & Middle(pnum;2;3) & ")" & Middle(pnum;5;3) & "-" & Middle(pnum;8;4) & " x" & Right(pnum;(Length(pnum)-11)) ;
//    Length(pnum) > 10; "(" & Left(pnum;3) & ")" & Middle(pnum;4;3) & "-" & Middle(pnum;7;4) & " x" & Right(pnum;(Length(pnum)-10)) ;
//   pnum ) 
// )

[Beto Boton]

OK I'll leave the question here so some other "novice" like me can find the answer searching for Phone formatting

The answer is that a custom function has written the LEFT side of the equation 
fnPhone (text) = 

this is located on top of where you write the code ! 

The solution was to just write text and the result would be:

fnPhone (text) = text

Like this:

//This is a CUSTOM FUNCTION -> Manage -> Custom function -> fnPhone(text)
// fnPhone(text)
// depending on phone # length, will format accordingly
// Timothy Trimble, www.timothytrimble.info

//  REMOVED FORMATTTING FROM PHONE FIELDS

// Let (pnum = Substitute( text; [ " "; "" ]; [ "("; ""]; [ ")"; ""]; [ "-"; ""]; [ "."; ""]; [ "x"; ""] ) ;
// Case (Length(pnum) = 7 ; Left(pnum;3) & "-" & Right(pnum;4) ;
//    Length(pnum) = 10 ; "(" & Left(pnum;3) & ")" & Middle(pnum; 4;3) & "-" & Right(pnum;4) ;
//    (Length(pnum) = 11 and Left(pnum;1) = "1") ; "1+(" & Middle(pnum;2;3) & ")" & Middle(pnum;5;3) & "-" & Right(pnum;4) ;
//    (Length(pnum) > 11 and Left(pnum;1) = "1") ; "1+(" & Middle(pnum;2;3) & ")" & Middle(pnum;5;3) & "-" & Middle(pnum;8;4) & " x" & Right(pnum;(Length(pnum)-11)) ;
//    Length(pnum) > 10; "(" & Left(pnum;3) & ")" & Middle(pnum;4;3) & "-" & Middle(pnum;7;4) & " x" & Right(pnum;(Length(pnum)-10)) ;
//   pnum ) 
// )

text

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wow, what a learning curve...

 

Beto Boton

Australia