Detect 10 digit American Phone Numbers

[King-Jaden]

My project will focus on detecting 10-digit American phone numbers. Phone numbers are often tied to the lives of their holders, and can even be used for 2-step verification in a variety of circumstances. Detecting phone numbers should allow me to better protect the individuals who don't know the importance of their anonymity.

I will most likely detect these phone numbers by scanning for specific and common formats of phone numbers such as:

1-xxx-xxx-xxxx, xxx-xxx-xxxx, xxxxxxxxx 1-(xxx)-xxx-xxxx (xxx)-xxx-xxxx xxx.xxx.xxxx

Reviewing whether or not the first three digits are a currently available American Area code could be a separate but linked issue to review later.

[claesmk]

You need to add a description

[King-Jaden]

You need to add a description

Thanks you. I believe I just completed my description.

[claesmk]

Description looks good. I would also add that a period is often used as a digit separator and should be include in your test cases - xxx.xxx.xxxx

My recommendation would be to separate possible phone number detection from validation. You could open a separate issue later if you decide you want to try to validate the area code on possible phone numbers.

[King-Jaden]

Updated one last time. Thank you.

[Ltchance]

Will this handle foreign phone numbers as well? They have a different starting digit based on their country.

[King-Jaden]

Will this handle foreign phone numbers as well? They have a different starting digit based on their country.

No. Just for the sake of simplicity, I will only be handling and searching for American Phone Numbers, and assume unlabeled phone numbers (Those without the initial value signifying an international country code) are American.

[KevSmoot19]

I like how you covered all the various formats that phone numbers can abide by.

[claesmk]

Will this handle foreign phone numbers as well? They have a different starting digit based on their country.

34 will attempt to detect some foreign numbers

[claesmk]

@King-Jaden I think you will find that the default Presidio recognizer discussed in the sprint instructions will work pretty well for detecting phone numbers