converting phone numbers to alphabets

[fo]

Does anyone know if there is a free code available to convert numbers to
text and/or text to numbers?

Thanks

[michel]

numbers to text is impossble, since per number, you have multiple letters.
letters to numbers would be an easy one to write yourself, wouldn't it?

Mich

"fo" <so*******@downunder.com.au> wrote in message
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Does anyone know if there is a free code available to convert numbers to
text and/or text to numbers?

Thanks

[Alvaro G Vicario]

*** fo wrote/escribió (Wed, 7 Jul 2004 16:08:09 +1000):

Does anyone know if there is a free code available to convert numbers to
text and/or text to numbers?

As you as you use a numeric variable in a context that requires strings,
it's automatically converted. E.G:

<?
$foo=33;
echo "Foo=$foo";
?>

As about the opposite, you can use cast operators:

<?
$foo=(int)'33';
?>

Since phone numbers usually have dots, parenthesis and dashes, you should
remove them first. A simple regex will do:

<?
$foo=eregi_replace('[^0-9]+', '', '902-99 99 99'); // Untested!
?>

Also, please note than handling phone numbers as text will remove leading
zeroes.
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[Geoff Berrow]

I noticed that Message-ID: <1r******************************@40tude.net>
from Alvaro G Vicario contained the following:

Also, please note than handling phone numbers as text will remove leading
zeroes.

Don't you mean 'handling phone numbers as numbers'.
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[Alvaro G Vicario]

*** Geoff Berrow wrote/escribió (Wed, 07 Jul 2004 07:38:09 +0100):

Also, please note than handling phone numbers as text will remove leading
zeroes.

Don't you mean 'handling phone numbers as numbers'.

Yes, sorry.

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[fo]

What I am looking for to more or less this
http://www.cheapnumbers.com/cgi-bin/spell.cgi
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Does anyone know if there is a free code available to convert numbers to
text and/or text to numbers?

Thanks

[Chung Leong]

"fo" <so*******@downunder.com.au> wrote in message
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What I am looking for to more or less this
http://www.cheapnumbers.com/cgi-bin/spell.cgi
"fo" <so*******@downunder.com.au> wrote in message
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Does anyone know if there is a free code available to convert numbers to
text and/or text to numbers?

Thanks

Not that I'm aware of. Shouldn't be too hard to code though. Just take a
word list, convert words with less than 7 letters to phone#, then insert
them into a hash table, something along the line of

array (
3456 => array('baby', 'dog', 'dingo'),
1234567 => array ( 'chicken', 'clinton', 'sweden' ... )
)

Serialize the hash table into a file. To retrieve a list of possible match,
just load the table and do a lookup. The trick I guess is finding
conbination of words. Should still be simply if you limit yourself to two
word conbinations.

[Geoff Berrow]

I noticed that Message-ID: <cc**********@otis.netspace.net.au> from fo
contained the following:

What I am looking for to more or less this
http://www.cheapnumbers.com/cgi-bin/spell.cgi

Ahhh..

tricky...

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[Markus Ernst]

"Chung Leong" <ch***********@hotmail.com> wrote

[...]

The trick I guess is finding conbination of words.

I think that's actually what the OP would like the script to do. Quite
tricky, maybe somehow like this:

// make array of digit's character values
$digits = array(array ("&amp", "@"), array("a", "b", "c"), array("d", "e",
"f"), ... );

// make array of number
$number = chunk_split((strval($number), 1, ':');
$array = explode(":",$number);
array_pop($array);

// Then make complex loops to make every possible combination of characters
and compare them with word list; I don't have the time to figure this out -
as the number length and thus the depth of loops vary it might be necessary
to use a function called for every digit of it.

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