Java - Use Group to format or replace the matched string with another string.

Introduction

To format all 10-digit phone numbers as (XXX) XXX-XXXX, where X denotes a digit.

The phone number is in three groups:

the first three digits,
the next three digits, and
the last four digits.

You can form a regular expression using three groups.

Then you can refer to the three matched groups by their group numbers.

The regular expression would be \b(\d{3})(\d{3})(\d{4})\b.

\b matches ten digits only at word boundaries.

The following code illustrates how you can display formatted phone numbers:

Demo

import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

public class Main {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    // Prepare the regular expression
    String regex = "\\b(\\d{3})(\\d{3})(\\d{4})\\b";

    // Compile the regular expression
    Pattern p = Pattern.compile(regex);

    String source = "1234567890, 1234567, and 1234567890";

    // Get Matcher object
    Matcher m = p.matcher(source);

    // Start match and display formatted phone numbers
    while (m.find()) {
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          .println("Phone: " + m.group() + ", Formatted Phone: (" + m.group(1) + ") " + m.group(2) + "-" + m.group(3));
    }
  }
}

Java - Use Group to format or replace the matched string with another string.

Introduction

Demo

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