Remove/Add Prefix before Calls

[Adnan]

Hi,

I have a postpaid plan and somehow, to make IDD calls at a cheaper
rate, my service provider requires to use 00132 infront of country
code instead of just '+' But this would require me to keep 2 numbers
for every international phone number that I have, one for calling and
one for SMS. Is there an easier way to convert all numbers which start
with other than +60 which is my own country code by removing the '+'
from the number and replacing and appending it with 00132 before the
call?

Thanks,

Adnan.

[Pent]

Sorry, this isn't possible yet. You can use the action Phone / Call
Divert to e.g. divert calls not matching +60 to a particular number
but you can't reference the original number in the one you divert to.

Pent

[UncleMike]

An app in the Android Market called TAKEphONE has the option to long-press on a number and have it copied to the clipboard.  You might be able to use this in conjunction with the Button Widget Clicked context in Tasker to do something like this:

Context: Button Widget Clicked [label: Copy to clipboard]

Task:

If %CLIP ~ +60*

Call 00132%CLIP

Else

Call %CLIP

End If

It's not as straight forward as dialing a number, but it's a way to select a number and pass that number to Tasker.  Once that's done, you can do anything you want with the number.  This would only work with numbers that are already in your contacts list.