You may enter rules for formatting the phone numbers.
The phone numbers that are reported from the telephone system to the PC may be modified using rules to match the TAPI application being used.
The phone numbers that are sent from the TAPI Application to the telephone system (make call) may be modified using rules as well.
Each line in the list contains an option if direct text compare or a regular expression is used.
The Search and Replace function uses regular expressions. If the ’Find what’ expression is found, the result from 'replace with' will be used as output. If the search pattern does not match, the original number will be reported unchanged. The entries in the list are processed one after each other. If one match is found, the remaining entries will be ignored.
There are three categories:
Search for:
Enter the regular expression that will be used to find a phone number.
Hint: The caret (^) can be found on the upper left key of a keyboard with German layout.
An overview of allowed expressions:
| Character | Description |
| ^ | The beginning of the search string (phone number). The expression "^0" matches '0' only at the beginning of the search string. |
| ^ | The caret (^) immediately following the left square bracket has a different meaning. It is used to exclude the remaining characters within brackets from matching the target string. The expression "[^0-8]" indicates that only the characters 0 to 8 are allowed. |
| $ | The dollar sign ($) will match the end of the string. The expression "152$" will match the sub-string "152" only if it is at the end of the string. |
| | | The alternation character (|) allows either expression on its side to match the target string. The expression "1|2" will match '1' as well as '2'. |
| . | The dot (.) allows any character (or any number). |
| * | The asterix (*) indicates that the character to the left of the asterix in the expression should match 0 or more times. |
| + | The plus (+) is similar to asterix but there should be at least one match of the character to the left of the + sign in the expression. |
| ? | The question mark (?) matches the character to its left 0 or 1 times. |
| () | The parenthesis affects the order of pattern evaluation and also serves as a tagged expression that can be used when replacing the matched sub-string with another expression. |
| [] | The corner brackets ([]) indicate the amount of signs that are permitted at this point. |
Replace with:
Enter the expression that defines how the number is to be formatted.
\1 represents the first matched expression enclosed by parentheses '( )' from the search pattern field.
\2 the second...
Check:
You may check your expressions right here by entering a phone number in the indicate field. The resulting output will be displayed. If the expression from the search pattern is not found, the phone number will be send to the outpout without modification.
Examples:
| Result | Search for | Replace with |
| Remove a leading 0 from the phone number | ^0(.*) | \1 |
| Replace a leading 80 at the beginning of the phone number by a 0 | ^80(.*) | 0\1 |
| Remove a private pin number that may be identified by a 50 followed by a 3 digit pin. |
|
\1 |
| Suppress all internal numbers that are indicated internally (3 digits) |
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| Add an access code (leading 0) to all numbers with more than 3 digits (e.g. all external numbers). |
|
0\1 |
| Add the PBX system root number (03012345) to all internal numbers (with 1 to 3 digits) |
|
03012345\1 |
| Adding an area code to all numbers not beginning with 0 and containing at least 4 digits (thus not internal). |
|
08151\1 |
Version 6.0