String formatting

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String formatting is a way to convert differently formatted phone numbers into a common format, so that they'll appear consistently on people's screens, and so that they'll work consistently when you make outgoing calls.

Such re-formatting into a common format is also called normalization, and you can read a short description of how it works in Specify number plan settings. This topic, however, goes into much more depth about the special normalization method, called string formatting, that was used in earlier Zylinc versions.

String formatting can, for example, be used to:

  • Add a missing prefix, followed by a default country code, to external numbers if the user didn’t enter them. For example, if you call 12345678, string formatting can transform that number into +45 1234 5678.

  • Remove unwanted characters, for example ( ) and spaces.
  • Add new spaces at specified positions to make numbers more readable on the screen. For example, string formatting can transform 12345678 into 12 34 56 78.

In very few advanced scenarios, string formatting can also be useful when you need to route specific phone number patterns to separate SIP trunks, when you initiate outgoing calls from ZyDesk.