Is it possible to get a user-friendly format string suitable for displaying to the user? about telephone_number HOT 6 CLOSED

Hey @ksouthworth!

Have you checked out this method?

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Yes I've seen that formatter method, but that only works when we already have a phone number, correct? In this case I don't know the phone # or country code yet on the front end, until the user submits the form/page.

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@ksouthworth, I see now. That makes sense. I'm not sure that it's something we'll be able to do. Here's why:

Phone number validation/formatting in North America is pretty straight-forward because we really only have 1 standard format that we abide by. For example, we know that all phone numbers will be 10 digits long which makes providing a formatting "hint" easy. The problem is that other countries don't have simple rules like this. Phone numbers within a single country can be of varying lengths and some of the formats are entirely dependent on the phone number itself. This means we wouldn't really be talking about a single hint, but rather many different hints (or formats) that the input could abide by.

If you don't know the formatting or the country code yet, there really are an infinite number of hints that we could provide.

Does that clear things up?

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Yes that makes sense. If we knew the country code ahead of time, would that narrow the list of possible hints down to a reasonable number (1 to 3) you think?

If we knew the Country Code when the page loaded, could possibly show a hint (or 2) that way...?

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Hey @ksouthworth,

Unfortunately, I don't think it's going to be something we'll be able to support. Because countries can support many different formats, we won't be able to narrow it down to just one or two. Additionally, formatting rules are generally with regex, so extract hints from regex would be a pretty difficult task.

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Ok, thanks for considering it, and thanks for this gem!

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