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Subject: Re: regexing to remove punctutation in telephone numbers 
In-reply-to: "Eric Smith"'s message of "Wed, 10 Dec 2003 13:46:17 +0100."
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Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 13:03:13 +0000
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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>
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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:

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

removes the offending characters from the first two arguments and
joins them together.

pws


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