format int to phone number

Question

Is there a way I can format for example: 0000000000 into (000)000-0000? I\'m returning a listbox which holds a collection of phone number which arent formated yet. What I wo

Answer 1

If you're saying that you want to do it on the client side, then given the phone number in a variable, you could do this:

http://jsfiddle.net/HZbXv/

var str = "0000000000";

var res = '(' + str.substr(0,3) + ')' + str.substr(3,3) + '-' + str.substr(6);

alert(res);

or this:

http://jsfiddle.net/HZbXv/1/

var str = "0000000000";

var res = str.replace(/(\d\d\d)(\d\d\d)(\d\d\d\d)/, '($1)$2-$3');

alert(res);

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EDIT:

As noted by @Nick Craver The second version can be shortened up with:

var res = str.replace(/(\d{3})(\d{3})(\d{4})/, '($1)$2-$3');