mvc3 format phone number

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I want to display the phone number like this (999) 999-9999 I thought the css class would do this but it doesn't

<td>@Html.Encode(Model.PhoneModel.PhoneNumber)</td>.

I tried this, but it doesn't work

@String.Format("{0:(###) ###-####}",Model.PhoneModel.PhoneNumber.ToString())

Doesn't `@Html.Encode` just print (an admittedly encoded) string? What are you trying to add a class to? — Chris Carew, Aug 14 '12 at 19:27
actually what I'm trying to do is format the phone number like this (999) 999-9999 — Ronald McDonald, Aug 14 '12 at 19:30
how does it comes to the Proeprty ? without brackets and hiphen ? — Shyju, Aug 14 '12 at 19:31
@RonaldMcDonald: Please mention your requirements clearly in the first version of question. People get confused and you may not get the answer you are looking for — Shyju, Aug 14 '12 at 19:40
possible duplicate of [How to format a string as a telephone number in C#](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/188510/how-to-format-a-string-as-a-telephone-number-in-c-sharp) — jrummell, Aug 14 '12 at 19:46

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Jan 06 '17 at 23:33

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I got this to work, but I don't like the fact that it's regrex.

@Regex.Replace(Model.PhoneModel.PhoneNumber, @"(\d{3})(\d{3})(\d{4})", "($1) $2-$3")

edited Jan 06 '17 at 23:33

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answered Aug 14 '12 at 20:01

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:08

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You may want to look at changing how you are outputting the values. Consider this article from Phil Haack.

http://haacked.com/archive/2010/04/28/replacing-html-encode.aspx

EDIT: To address your edit of formatting as a phone number reference this thread: How to format a string as a telephone number in C#

String.Format("{0:(###) ###-####}", 8005551212);

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Yes. Correct. That is no longer needed since MVC2 – Shawn Aug 14 '12 at 19:38

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 14 '12 at 19:56

There's not much point in spending too much effort on formatting phone numbers, when others have done all the work for you. Check out http://code.google.com/p/libphonenumber/ for a library which will format numbers (and convert them back to a standard format) for you. It's also available on nuget as libphonenumber-csharp.

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