Help returning '-' in a phone #

[mimsc]

this function call

<span>• <%=userData.getPhone()%></span>

returns a phone # for ex. 8005551155

Need a suggestion on setting it up as 800-555-1155 when i do the call

[orko]

whn u ll return in the form 800-555-1155, it will be a string... u have to convert the phn no (whether it is long or something else) to String.

return phnNo.substring(1,3) + "-" + phnNo.substring(4,6) + "-"  + phnNo.substring(7,10)

[mimsc]

thanks playa......let me try that out

[orko]

wish u good luck

[mimsc]

worked like a charm..i had to overlap the #'s though like this

return phone.substring(0,3) + "-" + phone.substring(3,6) + "-" + phone.substring(6,10);

but it worked...thanx

[jwenting]

and now to hope you never get any phone number that's not a US number...

[mimsc]

yeah....

[orko]

u can check the conditions too... if the number has 10 digits, count as us/canada phn no... if the number has 11 digits, starts with 1, drop first number.... if it is more or less than 10/11, thn a lot of stories... :P
one thing to mention: phone.substring(6,10) means 6th to 10th letter... if u give any number of 16 digits, it will ignore rest... if u want to format like us number for more than 11 digits, it will be simply phone.substring(6) -> which means all the letters after 6th letter.

[jwenting]

uh, no.
All countries use 10 digit numbers, plus an optional country code :)

And then there's cellphone numbers which in many countries don't have an area code.

In other words, forget about "nice" formatting as it's just not going to work.

[orko]

is it? thn i know some exceptions... :P

[~s.o.s~]

Look into the Locale class. By detecting the user locale, you can pick up the corresponding information from the properties file(eg. the phone number format).