format %CNUM in international format

[Abhinav Khandka]

Hi,

I want to store %CNUM in international format

eg %CNUM 18008008008 as 1-800-800-8008

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks

Abhinav

[Brandon Horwath]

You can't change tasker defined variables like %CNUM.

You are looking for action, phone, dial.

[Matt R]

You could use a sequence of Variable Section actions.

Matt

[Abhinav Khandka]

Hi Brandon 

Thanks for your reply. I am saving %CNUM to %num and then trying to do it. What I am trying to achieve is if there is an incoming call and caller is not in contact then format the caller number as +1-111-111-1111
Thanks

Abhinav

[Brandon Horwath]

Matt has your idea then :-)

[Abhinav Khandka]

I was able to split the number into an array

used something like

1 Variable St name %num to %CNUM

2. Variable Search Replace Variable %num Search [0-9] store matches In %numarray

This helps me google tts speak out number instead of billions and millions. However I want to display the number as +1-800-800-8000

Any idea how can i use regex, I have 1?\W*([2-9][0-8][0-9])\W*([2-9][0-9]{2})\W*([0-9]{4}) as expression.

Thanks

Abhinav Khandka

[Abhinav Khandka]

[Matt R]

Unfortunately, I don't think you can use grouping references from the search field in the replace field in Tasker's Variable Search Replace action. The only way I think you could do it would be would be to get your %numarray then use a Variable Set action to make a new variable %formatted to +%numarray(1)-%numarray(2:4)-%numarray(5:7)-%numarray(8:11). But then you'll have to go through another Variable Search Replace action to remove the commas. Another option would be doing it in a shell command using something like sed or awk (probably need busybox and perhaps a rooted phone). Or you could probably use JavaScript (which I'm unfamiliar with).

Matt

[Brandon Horwath]

Variable section will work though! Section the different fields to parse out the data you want.

%num = +18008008000 right? roughly?

Section %num 1:2 to %numregion ~ +1
Section %num 1:3 (or is it 3:5?) to %numarea ~ 800
etc, etc...

[Abhinav Khandka]

Thanks Guys,

I eventually used javascript to achieve this as I wanted to take care of some non-us calls too(more than one digit country code). Will post the profile shortly.