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Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 14:17:56 +0100
From: Eric Smith <es@fruitcom.com>
To: Zsh users list <zsh-users@sunsite.dk>
Subject: Re: regexing to remove punctutation in telephone numbers
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Peter Stephenson said:
> Eric Smith wrote:
> > Could someone suggest a neat zsh way to convert
> > 
> > $ myfax 00-(123) 4567-890 _some_file_name_ AnotherFileName.ps whatever
> > 
> > to
> > 
> > 001234567890 _some_file_name_ AnotherFileName.ps whatever
> 
> I don't know how flexible you want to be, but:

Thanks Peter,

Thats exactly the point ...

> 
> myfax () {
>         command myfax "${1//[-()]}${2//[-()]}" ${argv[3,-1]}
> }

There can be n number of args with the offending punctutation characters.  
And n should be determined from the first arg that commences in a non
[-()0-9] character.

-- 
Eric Smith