Remove dash from a phone number

Question

What regular expression using java could be used to filter out dashes \'-\' and open close round brackets from a string representing phone numbers...

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Answer 1

    public static String getMeMyNumber(String number, String countryCode)
    {    
         String out = number.replaceAll("[^0-9\\+]", "")        //remove all the non numbers (brackets dashes spaces etc.) except the + signs
                        .replaceAll("(^[1-9].+)", countryCode+"$1")         //if the number is starting with no zero and +, its a local number. prepend cc
                        .replaceAll("(.)(\\++)(.)", "$1$3")         //if there are left out +'s in the middle by mistake, remove them
                        .replaceAll("(^0{2}|^\\+)(.+)", "$2")       //make 00XXX... numbers and +XXXXX.. numbers into XXXX...
                        .replaceAll("^0([1-9])", countryCode+"$1");         //make 0XXXXXXX numbers into CCXXXXXXXX numbers
         return out;

    }