Removing the country code prefix from all contacts in the Address Book

Question

upgrading my iphone (to os 3.0) added country codes to all of my contacts,
not noticing this i synced it with my mac, thus adding said preixes to the contacts on my mac as well.
is there a way (only applescript from what i understand) to remove the country code from all my contacts?
thanks!

Answer 1

paste the following into Script Editor
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tell application "Address Book"
set mlist to selection
repeat with per in mlist
set NP to number of phones of per
repeat with i from 1 to NP
set curphone to value of (phone i of per) as text
if text 1 thru 4 of curphone is "+972" then
set value of phone i of per to "0" & text 5 thru -1 of curphone
end if
end repeat
end repeat
save
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select all the contacts you want to be affected in Address Book (you can select them all) and press "run" in script editor.