At 2012-02-20 15:50, Andreas wrote:
Hi,
is there a way to split up phone numbers?
I know that's a tricky topic and it depends on the national phone number format. I'm especially interested in a solution for Germany, Swizerland and Austria.

I've got everything in a phone number column that makes hardly sense like:
+49432156780
0049 4321 5678 0
04321/5678-0
and so on...
Those 3 samples are actually the same number in different notations.

Aim would be to get a normalized number split up in 4 seperate columns
nr_nation
nr_city
nr_main
nr_individual

so I end up with
49   4321   5678   0     for central
49   4321   5678   42   for Mr. Smith

Is this doable?


yes, sure - with regular expressions and/or with bunch of IF/THEN/ELSE blocks in PL/PgSQL.

see regexp_split_to_array, and other regex functions in the manual:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/functions-matching.html#FUNCTIONS-POSIX-REGEXP


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