Webservices - International Phone Numbers

Hello,
We have a customer who is implementing a web form on their website that with a call back number currently when web services creates the contact it populates with a +1 at the start of the phone number. I realise that this is driven off the ID making the web service call but is there any way that we can have the phone number drive off the contact country without having to hard code all the countries and their internal dialling codes into the coding.
Any help would be appricated :-)

Hello,
Theres no other way arround it.
When you will read phone numbers you will get something like +-_99(999)999-9999 you can take ")" as an offset and read the numbers after that
MainPhone.subString(indexOf(")") + 1, MainPhone.length());
This will skip the country and city codes for landlines but for cell phones the digits between "(999)" will be the telco.
Regards,
Abeer @ Sakonent
Edited by: sakonent.com on Sep 30, 2010 12:03 PM

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