Ruined my contacts with Apple Script, need someone to help me modify the script to undo what I did!

Question

Hi all, so all my contacts started with "+1". The goal was to erase the "+" and just have all of them start with "1". However, I messed up royally. I ran the following script, which made all my contacts start with "1+1". :
tell application "Contacts"
          repeat with eachPerson in people
                    repeat with eachNumber in phones of eachPerson
                              set theNum to (get value of eachNumber)
                              if (theNum starts with "1+") then
                                        set value of eachNumber to "1" & theNum
                              end if
                    end repeat
          end repeat
save
end tell
This is messed up in 2 ways. Firstly, I meant to write "+1" in the script, but instead I wrote "1+". Secondly, even if I had written "1+", it still wouldn't make sense, because I'd effectively be telling the program to just add "1" in front of what's already there, including the "+1".
Could someone please tell me how to modify this script to say:
If the contact starts with "1+1", then erase the "1+1". Then I would need another script to take all my numbers and add "1" in front of them.

Answer 1

What you want to do is simply delete the first few characters from the phone number, yes?
How about something like this:
                         repeat with eachNumber in phones of eachPerson
                                        set theNum to (get value of eachNumber) as string
                                        if (theNum starts with "1+1") then
                 set myFixedNum to (characters 3 thru -1) of theNum
                                        else if (theNum starts with "+1") then
                                                       set myFixedNum to (characters 2 thru -1) of theNum
                                        end if
                                        set value of eachNumber to (myFixedNum as string)
                          end repeat
That will take you from 1+1 or +1 to 1 in one easy step.