NAME

Number::Phone::JP::AreaCode - Utilities for Japanese area code of phone

SYNOPSIS

use Number::Phone::JP::AreaCode qw/
    area_code_by_address
    area_code_by_address_prefix_match
    area_code_by_address_fuzzy
    address_by_area_code
/;

address_by_area_code('1456'); # => { addresses => [ '北海道新冠郡新冠町里平', '北海道沙流郡日高町', ], local_code_digits => '1' }
address_by_area_code('01456'); # => same as above
area_code_by_address('大阪府東大阪市岩田町'); # => { area_code => '72', local_code_digits => '3' }
area_code_by_address_prefix_match('大阪府東大阪市岩田町一丁目'); # => { area_code => '72', local_code_digits => '3' }
area_code_by_address_fuzzy('大阪府東大阪市岩田'); # => {
                                                  #        '大阪府東大阪市岩田町' => {
                                                  #            area_code         => '72',
                                                  #            local_code_digits => '3',
                                                  #        },
                                                  #        '大阪府東大阪市岩田町三丁目' => {
                                                  #            area_code         => '6',
                                                  #            local_code_digits => '4',
                                                  #        },
                                                  #        '大阪府大阪市' => {
                                                  #            area_code         => '6',
                                                  #            local_code_digits => '4',
                                                  #        },
                                                  #        '大阪府東大阪市' => {
                                                  #            area_code         => '6',
                                                  #            local_code_digits => '4',
                                                  #        }
                                                  #    }

DESCRIPTION

Number::Phone::JP::AreaCode provides utilities for Japanese area code of phone. You can retrieve area code by address and opposite.

If you want to know about Japanese area code of phone, please refer http://www.soumu.go.jp/main_sosiki/joho_tsusin/top/tel_number/shigai_list.html (Japanese web page).

FUNCTIONS

All of functions return undef if result of retrieving is nothing.

• address_by_area_code($area_code)

  Retrieve addresses list by area code. This function returns hash reference like;

    {
        addresses         => [ '北海道◯◯市××町', '北海道◯◯市△△町' ],
        local_code_digits => '3'
    }
  

  addresses is the list of addresses that belong with area code. local_code_digits is the number of digits of local code.

  You can append country code (0) or not. As you like it!

• area_code_by_address($address)

  Retrieve area code by address (perfect matching). $address MUST have prefecture name. This function returns hash reference like;

    {
        area_code => '72',
        local_code_digits => '3'
    }
  

  area_code is the area code which excepted country code (0). local_code_digits is the number of digits of local code.

• area_code_by_address_prefix_match($address)

  Retrieve area code by address (prefix matching and longest matching). $address MUST have prefecture name. This function returns hash reference that is the same as area_code_by_address.

• area_code_by_address_fuzzy($address)

  Retrieve area code by address (partial match). $address MUST have prefecture name. This function returns hash reference like;

    {
        '大阪府◯◯市' => {
            area_code         => '6',
            local_code_digits => '4',
        },
        '大阪府△△市' => {
            area_code         => '72',
            local_code_digits => '3',
        }
    }
  

LICENSE

Copyright (C) moznion.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

CONTRIBUTOR

ytnobody

AUTHOR

moznion moznion@gmail.com