While i agree with your suggestion to allways Super Search first...

Just because there is a more complete problem, doesn't mean a person is interested in a solution to the complete problem -- in many cases the problems people face are simple subsets of larger "complete" problems.

Regardless of the posters subject, it was very clear that the input would be "1234567890" and the desired output was "(123) 456-7890"

If I was in a situation like that, where I knew my input would be limited to exactly 10 digits, with no punctuation, and i found node#159645 ... i would consider it severe overkill, and ask the question anyway. (Because I don't care about the obscure phone number rules of various countries ... i care about formating 10 digits)

In reply to Re: Re: formatted phone number from variable by hossman
in thread formatted phone number from variable by powerhouse

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