Ultimate way to find phone numbers in PHP string with preg_replace

Question

working on a project right now where we have large amount of text strings that we must localize phone numbers and make them clickable for android phones.

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Answer 1

Not sure that there is a library for that. Hmmmm. Like any international amenities, telephone numbers are standardised and there should be a format defining telephone numbers as well. E.164 suggests recommended telephone numbers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.164 . All open-source decoding libraries are built from reading these standard formats, so it should be of some help if you really cant find any existing libs