Remove unwanted characters, country code from phone numbers fetched from contacts iOS

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How can i remove unwanted characters, country code from phone numbers fetched from contacts iOS.

I used the above SO link to fetch contacts. Am able to fetch all contacts. But my problem , am getting unwanted character in the phone numbers . How can i remove those unwanted characters from phone numbers in iOS 7 & iOS 6.

Please find contact detail added in Simulator

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Please find the log in iOS 7 Simulator below:

2014-04-10 10:43:13.274 AddressBook[946:a0b] Contact name alan bold
2014-04-10 10:43:13.275 AddressBook[946:a0b] Phone number 1 (234) 567-89
2014-04-10 10:43:13.275 AddressBook[946:a0b] All numbers (
    "1\U00a0(234)\U00a0567-89"
)
2014-04-10 10:43:13.276 AddressBook[946:a0b] all contacts (
    "<ContactsData: 0x9984330>"
)

And Please find the log in iOS 6 Simulator below:

2014-04-10 10:37:44.965 AddressBook[883:c07] Fetching contact info ----> 
2014-04-10 10:37:44.973 AddressBook[883:c07] Contact name alsn vols
2014-04-10 10:37:44.974 AddressBook[883:c07] Phone number 1 (234) 567-890
2014-04-10 10:37:44.974 AddressBook[883:c07] All numbers (
    "1 (234) 567-890"
)
2014-04-10 10:37:44.975 AddressBook[883:c07] all contacts (
    "<ContactsData: 0x7c56510>"
)

And guide me how to remove country code from phone numbers

Refer this link http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1129521/remove-all-but-numbers-from-nsstring. — apple, Apr 10 '14 at 05:37
Are you just trying to remove non numeric characters from a string? — CrimsonChris, Apr 10 '14 at 05:39
Yes am trying to remove non numeric characters from string which is a phone number — Vinodh, Apr 10 '14 at 05:43
The phone that you see in the address book is a representation of the phone number. For the same phone number (for example +123456789), you will see for the US locale 1 (234) 567-89 and for the Spanish locale +1 23 456 789 (without parenthesis). When you get the contact phone you will have + or white spaces at most — javierfdezg, Apr 10 '14 at 06:53

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 10 '14 at 06:46

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I use Google's libPhoneNumber library to extract the phone number from the contact and normalize it in several formats (Local format, International format and E164 format).

I suggest you to give it a try :)

answered Apr 10 '14 at 06:46

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