formatted string phone number android

Question

I am currently exporting some of the phone numbers of contacts stored in the Contacts content provider, and I would like to know if something exists to get the 'formated' string for the phone number e.g. instead of xxx-xxx-xxxx => xxxxxxxxxx. for a better DB consistency.

It would be pretty easy with a reg-ex, but i'd like to know if something already exists for this purpose, as the doc. mentions :

public static final String NUMBER - Since: API Level 5
The phone number as the user **entered it**.
Type: TEXT - Constant Value: "number"

which let's me think a standard format exists somewhere ... ? Thanks in advance !

wow really no idea anyone ? I guess I'm good to go with regexes ... — olamotte, Apr 19 '11 at 21:27

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 04 '11 at 15:25

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As far as I know something like this doesn't exist. I think you will have to write your own.

answered May 04 '11 at 15:25

Camille Sévigny

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered May 04 '11 at 15:30

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Reg-ex it! Pretty sure nothing like this exists.

answered May 04 '11 at 15:30

Martyn

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 24 '11 at 07:03

If you Don't want to use Reg-ex code than use below code for get this type of formatted number

String[] temp=SelectedContactNo.split("-");
        String MoNo="";
        int len=temp.length;
        for(int j=0;j<len;j++)
        {
            MoNo +=temp[j];
        }

Now you'll use MoNo as formatted String.

formatted string phone number android

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