Question

I have following example string that needs to be filtered

0173556677 (Alice), 017545454 (Bob)

This is how phone numbers are added to a text view. I want the text to look like that

0173556677;017545454

Is there a way to change the text using regular expression. How would such an expression look like? Or do you recommend an other method?

Answer 1

You can do as follows:

String orig = "0173556677 (Alice), 017545454 (Bob)";
String regex = " \\(.+?\\)"; 
String res = orig.replaceAll(regex, "").replaceAll(",", ";");
//                           ^remove all content in parenthesis
//                                                 ^ replace comma with semicolon