Title: Match US Phone Numbers
Slug: match_us_phone_numbers
Summary: Match US Phone Numbers
Date: 2016-05-01 12:00
Category: Regex
Tags: Basics
Authors: Chris Albon

Based on: Regular Expressions Cookbook

Preliminaries



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# Load regex package
import re

Create some text



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# Create a variable containing a text string
text = 'My phone number is 415-333-3922. His phone number is 4239389283'

Apply regex



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# Find any text that fits the regex
re.findall(r'\(?([2-9][0-8][0-9])\)?[-.●]?([2-9][0-9]{2})[-.●]?([0-9]{4})', text)









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[('415', '333', '3922'), ('423', '938', '9283')]