I frequently write down a telephonenumber and then forget to write down the name of the owner. It must have something to do with my brilliant sense of organisation <*coughs*>.

Anyway you used to have a program named Foongrep where you could search on dutch telephonenumbers, but sadly it has been discontinued (after a legal battle) for a long time now. I came upon a site that still offers this service, so I wrote this small commandline program. I learned much from Juerd's vandale.pl, that checks words in the dutch dictionairy. 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#gettel.pl - poor man's foongrep for dutch telephone numbers 

use strict;
use LWP::UserAgent;

my $nummer;

if ( $ARGV[0] ) {
    $nummer = $ARGV[0];
}

else {
    Jammer_hoor();
}

if ( $nummer !~ m/\b\d{3}-\d{7}\b/ ) {
    Jammer_hoor();
}

#get page
my $url  = "http://zoekopnummer.ath.cx/index.php?nummer=$nummer";
my $info =
  LWP::UserAgent->new->request( HTTP::Request->new( GET => $url ) )->c
+ontent;

#no more newlines!
$info =~ s/\n//g;

#substitute number
$nummer =~ s/-//gi;

if ( $info !~ m/Naam:/g ) {
    print "\nNo info found on that number\n";
    exit;
}

#filter out all the adds and links
$info =~ s/$nummer//gi;
$info =~ s/<.*?>//gi;
$info =~ s/\.\.\..*?\.\.\.//gi;
$info =~ s/\{.*?\}//gi;
$info =~ s/\(.*?\)//gi;
$info =~ s/table.*?://gi;
$info =~ s/1\ item.*?sp\;//gi;
$info =~ s/2\ item.*?sp\;//gi;
$info =~ s/\s+/ /gi;

#format for easy cut 'n paste
$info =~ s/Telnr: /\n/g;
$info =~ s/Naam: /\n/g;
$info =~ s/Adres: /\n/g;
$info =~ s/Plaats: /\n/g;
$info =~ s/Postcode: /\n/g;
$info =~ s/Fax: /\nfax: /g;

print "$info";

sub Jammer_hoor {
    print
      "Usage: Specify a dutch telephone number like\ngettel.pl 020-123
+4567\n";
    exit;
}

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