extracting (international) phone numbers from text

Question

I am looking for a way of extracting international phone numbers from text.

In other words, inputting the text below:

"this test +44 (0) 7961617600 Reconfirmation Notes Transfer to London train station (Mon, Apr 25) Pax : 45 + 1 BM Coaches Confirm +32 (020) 9948 7711 - Gaynor Reconfirmation is required by Apr 23. \\n\\nConfirmed with on at Day 4 : Monday, April 25, 2011 (Sun, Apr 24)"

would output: +44 (0) 7961617600 +32 (020) 9948 7711

Thank you

Answer 1

I'm not sure what you are using, but you might be able to just grep all the numbers from textfiles in a directory.

If the + will always be there it can be an anchor. In vim something like this could get the numbers in a folder, but it is loose

:lvim /+\d\{1}\([0-9 ()]\{9,}\)\d\{1}/gj *.txt

if you're sure there will be a (123) piece this could tighten it up