I am working on an SMS app and need to be able to convert the sender’s phone number from +11234567890 to 123-456-7890 so it can be compared to records in a MySQL database.
The numbers are stored in the latter format for use elsewhere on the site and I would rather not change that format as it would require modifying a lot of code.
How would I go about this with PHP?
Thanks!
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Answer
$data = '+11234567890'; if( preg_match( '/^+d(d{3})(d{3})(d{4})$/', $data, $matches ) ) { $result = $matches[1] . '-' .$matches[2] . '-' . $matches[3]; return $result; }