Problem 1069. Phoneword Translator
Given an alphanumeric telephone number (Ex. 1-800-COLLECT), return the purely numeric phone number as a vector. This problem uses the US number associations as shown below

Example:
phoneword = '1-800-COLLECT'; phonenumber = phoneword2number(phoneword);
outputs
phonenumber = [1 8 0 0 2 6 5 5 3 2 8]
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goc3
on 6 Oct 2016
The image link is broken.
Rafael S.T. Vieira
on 23 Aug 2020
Apparently, it was fixed.
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