NAME

Callerid - Perl extension for interpreting raw caller ID information (a la AT#CID=2)

SYNOPSIS

  use Callerid;
  my($hex) = "8024010830...";

  # OO-style
  my($cid) = new Callerid($hex);
  print $cid->{name}; # prints callers name

  -or-

  # Procedural style
  my(%cid) = Callerid::parse_raw_cid_string($hex);
  print $cid{name}; # prints callers name


  # prints phone number pretty
  print Callerid::format_phone_number($cid{number});

DESCRIPTION

The Callerid module aims to provide a quick and easy method (YMMV) of decoding raw caller ID information as supplied by a modem.

This module does not talk to modems. It also does not mangle input. If you don't supply a hex string of the right format then you lose.

Methods

`$cid = Callerid->new($string_of_hex)`

Returns a newly created Callerid object. If you supply it with a hex string then (assuming it's not malformed) it will populate data fields in the new Callerid object appropriately.

Currently the (public) fields provided are: name number hour minute month day.

`$cid->parse_raw_cid_string($string_of_hex)`

`%info = Callerid::parse_raw_cid_string($string_of_hex)`

When called as an object method parse_raw_cid_string() will fill the objects data fields with appropriate information. When called as a class method parse_raw_cid_string() will return a hash with the same data fields.

`$pretty_number = $cid->format_phone_number()`

`$pretty_number = Callerid::format_phone_number($number)`

When called as an object method, format_phone_number() will return the object's number field formatted pretty. When called as a class method, format_phone_number() will take a single argument and will do the same thing.

``Formatted pretty'' means 7-digit phone numbers become ###-####, 10-digit numbers become ###-###-####, 11-digit numbers become #-###-###-#### and everything else is passed through unchanged.

EXPORT

None by default.

SAMPLE CODE

 use Callerid;

 # read in a list of raw caller ID codes
 while(<>) {
        chomp;
        s/#.*$//; # remove comments
        s/^\s*//; # remove leading spaces
        s/\s*$//; # remove trailing spaces
        next unless $_; # skip if there's nothing left

        my($cid);
        eval {
                $cid = new Callerid($_);
        };

        if($@) {
                warn "error parsing $_: $@";
        } else {
                printf "%s parses to name=%s number=%s date=%02d/%02d time=%02d:%02d\n",
                        $_,
                        $cid->{name},
                        $cid->format_phone_number(),
                        $cid->{month},
                        $cid->{day},
                        $cid->{hour},
                        $cid->{minute};
        }
 }

AUTHOR

Mike Carr, <mcarr@pachogrande.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.4 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.

Callerid - Perl extension for interpreting raw caller ID information