Optimized regular expression replace for phone number normalization.

h0pbeat · Apr 20, 2012 · df49b6a · df49b6a
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diff --git a/src/edu/mit/media/funf/HashUtil.java b/src/edu/mit/media/funf/HashUtil.java
@@ -121,13 +121,8 @@ public static String hashString(Context context, String msg,
 		}
 	}
 
-	// by Wei Pan
 	public static String formatPhoneNumber(String numberString) {
-		numberString = numberString.replaceAll("\\(", "");
-		numberString = numberString.replaceAll("\\)", "");
-		numberString = numberString.replaceAll("-", "");
-		numberString = numberString.replaceAll("\\+", "");
-		numberString = numberString.replaceAll("\\*", "");
+		numberString = numberString.replaceAll("[^0-9]+", "");
 		int i = numberString.length();
 		if (i <= 10)
 			return numberString;