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Posted by "Richard Lynch" on 11/13/04 11:21
On Mon, July 4, 2005 6:48 pm, Bruno B B Magalhães said:
> For example I have a brazilian zipcode witch is stored in database as
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> 22252970 and must be formatted as NNNNN-NNN, where N is a number.
> Also I have a tax id with is also stored as numeric value only, for
> example 05117635472 and outputted as NNN.NNN.NNN-NN... Is that any
> way that I can do it generic, storing the formatting strings ('NNNNN-
> NNN') with languages strings, so it is localised and this would be
> parsed as:
>
> string::format($string, $format);
//Untested code:
function format($string, $format){
$slen = strlen($string);
$flen = strlen($format);
$result = '';
for ($f = 0, $s = 0; $f <= $flen && $s <= $slen; $f++){
$fc = $format[$f];
$sc = $string[$s];
switch($fc){
case 'N':
if (!strstr('0123456789', $sc)){
//Suitable error for mal-formed data here.
//$fc should be a digit, but it's not.
}
$result .= $sc;
$s++;
break;
//Assume you need 'C'haracter data at some point in the future:
case 'C':
if (!stristr('abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz', $fc)){
//more error-code (see above)
}
$result .= $sc;
$s++;
break;
default:
$result .= $fc;
break;
}
}
return $result;
}
I also don't think you want to tie it into "Locale" unless the data itself
is tagged with Locale, rather than the viewer's Locale.
A US zip code is NNNNN[-NNNN] no matter what language you are viewing it in.
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