Re: paterns for phones' numbers

>> Don't !    Phone numbers don't need structure - you just dial them and
>> they work. Trying to impose a structure like this causes no end of
>> problems (I used to write commercial desktop apps - I learned this
>> _years_ ago).

>Right.

Really?  It used to be the case that in Britain that dialling the full
"long-distance" version of a local number *didn't* work; you had to
extract the local part.  I think it now generally works, but I wouldn't
bet on that being the case everywhere.

-- Richard