Delete Characters From Variable?

I'll begin with a Doh!, because I know this should be easy...but it just escapes me.

I have a variable that I need to remove the "+1" from,
e.g. "+1 (406) 555-5555" to "(406) 555-5555"

Any help greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Carl

[jay (support)]

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set longPhoneNumber to "+1 (406) 555-5555"
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to " "
set shortPhoneNumber to (text items 2 thru 3 of longPhoneNumber as string)

Results in "(406) 555-5555".

Or...

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set longPhoneNumber to "+1 (406) 555-5555"
set shortPhoneNumber to do shell script ("echo \"" & longPhoneNumber & "\" |tr -d \"+\"")


... the shell is your friend (and about as easy to understand as a spouse).

[jay (support)]

the shell is your friend

Sometimes not so much...

the shell is your friend

Don't know about the shell, but this forum certainly is!

Many thanks, works perfectly. I incorporated it into the script that Dialectic
runs to send Indigo the CID info, now without the rather annoying +1
in the number.

Carl