Question

I’m trying to implement a javascript function to replace country code part of a phone number.

The input is [phone] and I want to replace +90 part with javascript. I tried do write a regex but I couldn’t succeed.

/^\++[a-z]+\s$/

EDIT : Final solution

$("#ddlCountry").change(function () {
    if ($("#tMobile").val() == '') {
        $("#tMobile").val("+" + $(this).find(":selected").attr("CountryCode")
        + " ");
    } else {
        $("#tMobile").val($("#tMobile").val().replace(/^(\+\d*)/,
        "+" + $(this).find(":selected").attr("CountryCode")));
    }
});

Answer 1

The following pattern should match any country code, assuming there’s always a non-digit character between the country code and whatever number comes next: /^(\+\d*)/

var phoneNumber = "[phone]";
phoneNumber = phoneNumber.replace(/^(\+\d*)/, '+852');
alert(phoneNumber);

(Try it on JSFiddle)

Edit:
Okay… this is a bit silly, you can also do this:

var phoneNumber = "[phone]";
phoneNumber = phoneNumber.replace(/^(\+)(\d*)(.*)/, '$1852$3');
alert(phoneNumber);

(Try it on JSFiddle)

I was trying to make it unnecessary to include the plus sign in the new country code, but I can’t find a way of doing that other than what I’ve shown above. Essentially, it uses three capture groups: one for the plus sign, one for the country code, and one for the rest of the phone number. In the new country code, I sandwiched the country code itself in between $1 and $3, which translates to:

Replace the old phone number with a new phone number consisting of the first capture group (the plus sign) followed by the new country code (“852″) followed by the rest of the phone number (” (533) 333 33 33″).