How to get phone number from address book as string?

Question

I have a text field with a contact name and I want to get the phone number for that:

ABAddressBookRef adressBook = ABAddressBookCreate();

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Answer 1

For those searching for phone extraction. You can extract the phone numbers from a text and then replace it with @"", for example:

NSString *userBody = @"This is a text with 30612312232 my phone";
if (userBody != nil) {
    NSError *error = NULL;
    NSDataDetector *detector = [NSDataDetector dataDetectorWithTypes:NSTextCheckingTypePhoneNumber error:&error];
    NSArray *matches = [detector matchesInString:userBody options:0 range:NSMakeRange(0, [userBody length])];
    if (matches != nil) {
        for (NSTextCheckingResult *match in matches) {
            if ([match resultType] == NSTextCheckingTypePhoneNumber) {
                DbgLog(@"Found phone number %@", [match phoneNumber]);
            }
        }
    }
}

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