remove space, -, () from phone number

Question

I have an array of objects which are phone numbers such as:

phoneArray = [{"phone": "+11 111 111"},{"phone": "+22 222 222"}]

I did a loop on it to remove spaces because I want this result:

[{"phone": "+11111111"},{"phone": "+22222222"}]

but I only could remove the first space which looked like

[{"phone": "+11111 111"},{"phone": "+22222 222"}

with this code:

for(i=0 ; i<phoneArray.length ; i++) {

let test = phoneArray[i].phone.replace(" ","");
}

I actually have other phone numbers like {"phone": "(22) 222-222"} to format but if I can remove space I can remove other signes like ()- I think.

I don't use regex because I don't understand it yet.

you need to use the regex to replace all spaces: `.replace(/ /g,"")` — Lux, Jan 26 '22 at 14:19
Turn it the other way around: you want to remove everything *but* numbers and "+"… — deceze, Jan 26 '22 at 14:20
Does this answer your question? [How to replace all occurrences of a string in JavaScript](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1144783/how-to-replace-all-occurrences-of-a-string-in-javascript) — Lux, Jan 26 '22 at 14:20
Does this answer your question? [replace nonNumeric characters with javascript?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6097305/replace-nonnumeric-characters-with-javascript) — Raul Sauco, Jan 26 '22 at 14:21

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 26 '22 at 15:03

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To remove all characters except for + and numbers, you can do this:

let p = "+1 (555) 555-555"

console.log(p.replace(/[^\d\+]/g,''))

answered Jan 26 '22 at 15:03

Samathingamajig

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Maik Lowrey · Answer 2 · 2022-01-26T15:13:58.730

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You can pass a regex pattern to your replace function. Like that:

let p = "+(11) 111 111-11"

console.log(p.replace(/[\s\-\(\)]/g,''))

edited Jan 26 '22 at 15:13

answered Jan 26 '22 at 14:23

Maik Lowrey

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This only removes spaces, OP also wants dashes and parentheses removed – Samathingamajig Jan 26 '22 at 15:01

Andres Rene Gutierrez T · Answer 3 · 2022-01-26T16:49:01.240

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I would use the map function to iterate the array and change each of the values, to each value will apply the function replace with a regex in order to remove the non digits number and +.

phoneArray = [{"phone": "+11 111 111"},{"phone": "+22 222 222"}]
phoneArray = phoneArray.map(p => {
   return {
     phone: p.phone.replace(/[^+\d+]/g,"")
   }
})
console.log(phoneArray)

edited Jan 26 '22 at 16:49

answered Jan 26 '22 at 16:32

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how to do this but my phone number in number data type not in string – sylvia_fe Oct 09 '22 at 04:46

Naresh Sharma · Answer 4 · 2022-01-26T14:57:09.743

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You can try phone.replace(/\D/g,'') this will replace all non-numeric characters and will give you the numbers, hope this helps. enter image description here

edited Jan 26 '22 at 14:57

answered Jan 26 '22 at 14:49

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remove space, -, () from phone number

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