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Interaction with Google contacts can be accomodated with WWW::Google::Contacts (or this if CPAN search is down).

Checking the number is likely accomplished with mangling the input into a regular expression; perhaps like: 

my @terms = $ARGV[0] =~ /(\d{3})(\d{3})(\d{4})/;
my $re = qr/^\(?$terms[0]\)?-?$terms[1]-?$terms[2]$/;

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or, following your suggested spec 
$number =~ s/[^\d:]//g;
if (grep $_ eq $ARGV[0], split ':::', $number) {
    say $number;
}

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If you are unfamiliar with regular expressions, see perlretut.

#11929 First ask yourself `How would I do this without a computer?' Then have the computer do it the same way.

In reply to Re: How can I get a single record from Google Contacts based on a phone number? by kennethk
in thread How can I get a single record from Google Contacts based on a phone number? by Anonymous Monk

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