NAME

format-phone-number - Normalize phone number

VERSION

This document describes version 0.006 of format-phone-number (from Perl distribution App-PhoneNumberUtils), released on 2022-09-13.

SYNOPSIS

format-phone-number [--default-country-code=country::code::alpha2] [--format=name|--json] [--(no)naked-res] [--page-result[=program]|--view-result[=program]] [--strip-whitespace|-S|--no-strip-whitespace|--nostrip-whitespace] -- [phnums] ...

See examples in the "EXAMPLES" section.

DESCRIPTION

This utility uses Number::Phone to format the phone number, which supports country-specific formatting rules.

The phone number must be an international phone number (e.g. +6281812345678 instead of 081812345678). But if you specify the default_country_code option, you can supply a local phone number (e.g. 081812345678) and it will be formatted as international phone number.

This utility can accept multiple numbers from command-line arguments or STDIN.

OPTIONS

* marks required options.

Main options

--default-country-code=s
--phnums-json=s

See --phnums.

Can also be specified as the 1st command-line argument and onwards.

--phnums=s@

Can also be specified as the 1st command-line argument and onwards.

Can be specified multiple times.

--strip-whitespace, -S

Output options

--format=s

Choose output format, e.g. json, text.

Default value:

undef

Output can be displayed in multiple formats, and a suitable default format is chosen depending on the application and/or whether output destination is interactive terminal (i.e. whether output is piped). This option specifically chooses an output format.

--json

Set output format to json.

--naked-res

When outputing as JSON, strip result envelope.

Default value:

0

By default, when outputing as JSON, the full enveloped result is returned, e.g.:

[200,"OK",[1,2,3],{"func.extra"=>4}]

The reason is so you can get the status (1st element), status message (2nd element) as well as result metadata/extra result (4th element) instead of just the result (3rd element). However, sometimes you want just the result, e.g. when you want to pipe the result for more post-processing. In this case you can use --naked-res so you just get:

[1,2,3]
--page-result

Filter output through a pager.

This option will pipe the output to a specified pager program. If pager program is not specified, a suitable default e.g. less is chosen.

--view-result

View output using a viewer.

This option will first save the output to a temporary file, then open a viewer program to view the temporary file. If a viewer program is not chosen, a suitable default, e.g. the browser, is chosen.

Other options

--help, -h, -?

Display help message and exit.

--version, -v

Display program's version and exit.

COMPLETION

This script has shell tab completion capability with support for several shells.

bash

To activate bash completion for this script, put:

complete -C format-phone-number format-phone-number

in your bash startup (e.g. ~/.bashrc). Your next shell session will then recognize tab completion for the command. Or, you can also directly execute the line above in your shell to activate immediately.

It is recommended, however, that you install modules using cpanm-shcompgen which can activate shell completion for scripts immediately.

tcsh

To activate tcsh completion for this script, put:

complete format-phone-number 'p/*/`format-phone-number`/'

in your tcsh startup (e.g. ~/.tcshrc). Your next shell session will then recognize tab completion for the command. Or, you can also directly execute the line above in your shell to activate immediately.

It is also recommended to install shcompgen (see above).

other shells

For fish and zsh, install shcompgen as described above.

EXAMPLES

Example #1

% format-phone-number +442087712924
+44 20 8771 2924

Example #2

% format-phone-number +6281812345678
+62 818 1234 5678

HOMEPAGE

Please visit the project's homepage at https://metacpan.org/release/App-PhoneNumberUtils.

SOURCE

Source repository is at https://github.com/perlancar/perl-App-PhoneNumberUtils.

AUTHOR

perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>

CONTRIBUTING

To contribute, you can send patches by email/via RT, or send pull requests on GitHub.

Most of the time, you don't need to build the distribution yourself. You can simply modify the code, then test via:

% prove -l

If you want to build the distribution (e.g. to try to install it locally on your system), you can install Dist::Zilla, Dist::Zilla::PluginBundle::Author::PERLANCAR, Pod::Weaver::PluginBundle::Author::PERLANCAR, and sometimes one or two other Dist::Zilla- and/or Pod::Weaver plugins. Any additional steps required beyond that are considered a bug and can be reported to me.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2022, 2021, 2018 by perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=App-PhoneNumberUtils

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.