in reply to Re^4: Phone number to word conversion
in thread Phone number to word conversion

> you have to come up with a very fine specification for what is and isn't acceptable during your mapping

I don't mean to sound insulting, but I did come up with one. Please take a careful look at the original post.


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Re^6: Phone number to word conversion
by aquarium (Curate) on Nov 14, 2010 at 21:48 UTC
    what about if you turn the /etc/words into number combinations instead, and grep each such number combination into your chosen number, stripped of 0's and 1's?
    the hardest line to type correctly is: stty erase ^H