Java – Format a String in Phone Number Format with Hyphens

Learn to format a specified string to a phone number pattern, which is ‘(123) 456-6789’. This conversion is generally required in applications where customer data has to be displayed, and phone number is part of this data.

1. Format String to ‘(###) ###-####‘ Pattern

To format string to phone number –

• Break the string into 3 groups using regular expression '(\\d{3})(\\d{3})(\\d+)'.
• The first group contains 3 digits. The second contains 3 digits, and the last group contains all remaining digits.
• Create a formatted string using these groups.

Given below is a Java program that converts a string to a phone number in (###) ###-#### format. It uses the String.replaceFirst() method for matching and replacing the substring using regex.

String input = "1234567890";

String number = input.replaceFirst("(\\d{3})(\\d{3})(\\d+)", "($1) $2-$3");   //(123) 456-7890

2. Format String to ‘###-###-####‘ Pattern

We can reuse the logic discussed in the previous section to capture the groups and format them into any pattern, such as ###-###-####.

String input = "1234567890";

String number = input.replaceFirst("(\\d{3})(\\d{3})(\\d+)", "$1-$2-$3");   //123-456-7890

Happy Learning !!

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