Remove characters from phonenumbers
Hello,
I have the following problem:
35% of the phonenumbers in my contacts contain a wrong phone number format.
Some phonenumbers in my contacts contain a format like +<country code> (0)<area code> phonenumber or (+<country code> <area code>)<phonenumber> or (<areacode>)<phone number>
Because the numbers are formated with ( ) and - i have problems with my bluetooth device when dailing from my addresbook/contacts
I want to remove the (0) from all the phone numbers and all other illegal charactars so the format will be like this:
+<country code> <areacode> <phonenumber>
I tried the Mac App Contacts Cleaner but this app does not reconize the current format and can not translate to my required format.
So i have to edit 200 contacts by hand.
Please advice.
Thanks
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