[vwnc] Smalltalk equivalent for sscanf?

> I've got a phone number that will be brought in via Seaside and can be
> in
> the following format (nnn) xxx-yyyy where everything but the parens  
> are
> numbers.  I want to convert it back to a fixed point value (e.g.
> nnnxxxyyyy).
>
> Unfortunately, I didn't see any obvious way to do this aside from
> parsing
> the string.. Is there something similar to sscanf() for Smalltalk that
> I can
> pass a format string to and have it do the dirty work?  Thanks!
>
> -- Rick
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> I've got a phone number that will be brought in via Seaside and can be
> in the following format (nnn) xxx-yyyy where everything but the  
> parens are
> numbers.  I want to convert it back to a fixed point value (e.g.
> nnnxxxyyyy).
>
> Unfortunately, I didn't see any obvious way to do this aside from
> parsing the string.. Is there something similar to sscanf() for
> Smalltalk that I can pass a format string to and have it do the
> dirty work?  Thanks!