Re: The 1st Official Puzzle in Years!! (Lucky You)

In article <72dca4FoieeeU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Julius Kavay <kavay@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Rod Dorman wrote:

IMHO a large percentage of people would expect a free form phone
string of "1-800-Flowers" would normalize to 8003569377

something like this?

Str2Tel(s) $tr($zcvt(s,"l"), "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxzy",
"22233344455566677778889999")

Well sure, the M[UMPS] code to map from a telephone keypad to digits
is trivial.

What I was questioning was what 'normalize' meant in this puzzle. By
throwing away non-digits it was excluding a popular representation of
phone numbers.

Some examples that break the 10-digit rule are:
800-SHREDDING
877-MAMMO2GO
877-SEND-FLOWERS
800-Terminix
800-Wachovia
888-MY-DOC-FIND

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-- Rod --
rodd(at)polylogics(dot)com
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