Let for the phoneNumber() and cellPhone() methods put a format

[manueljordan]

I am playing a lot with this wonderful library, thanks for this tool

Well, I am working in peace until some point with:

• faker.phoneNumber().cellPhone()
• faker.phoneNumber().phoneNumber()

Just curious if I can set the phone number or cell phone format prior to be generated to the following patterns:

• ###### (possible in someway just with faker.numerify("######"))
• ##-##-## (possible in someway just with faker.numerify("##-##-##"))

Even better to something like: (mostly I need this)

• [2-4]#-##-## to get valid just: (22-67-11 23-88-99 38-20-15 * 43-98-44 )
• [2-4]##### to get valid just: (226711 238899 382015 * 439844 )

Therefore something to:

• faker.phoneNumber().cellPhone([2-4]#-##-##)
• faker.phoneNumber().phoneNumber([2-4]#####)

Thus I am not sure if is possible (if yes - how can be configured?) and if not, consider add this feature

Thanks for your understanding

[kellerj]

@manueljordan You may want to take a look at the data underlying this API. It was not designed for arbitrary digits with a regex-like pattern. I too would like to be able to specify a format, but my need is mainly for delimiter differences.

Take a look at this file in the project: src/main/resources/en-US.yml and search for phone_number

I'm assuming those formats are common to a non-US country. I did not look into the other configuration files in that directory, but maybe you can get what you need by adding to one of the YML files in there.

[manueljordan]

Hello @kellerj , yes, I saw that file, sadly in my country the patterns numbers change for each city. It about two important things:

• Size, for my city is maximum 6 digits, in other cities, 7 digits
• The two first numbers varies according the cities, in my city would start with 23, 44, 25, and in other cities with 66, 65.

And even more, would be: (054)-226711 or (051)-2588769

Thus I need set the length or pattern manually (and restrict the two first digits)

[serhiiperfectial]

Hi, is there an option to generate fake cellPhone() that will contain country code all the time?

[Numichi]

Is this feature support to international phone prefix or numbers? I am thinking here of the plus sign. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_country_calling_codes

[Breina]

You can use a regex directly:

Faker.instance().expression("#{regexify '" + PHONE_NUMER_REGEX + "'}")

I suggest this one: https://phoneregex.com/