PhoneNumberParser 3.8.0

Phone Number Parser

A library for parsing phone numbers, providing validity of phone numbers including national destination codes (aka area codes) and subscriber numbers (aka line numbers) based upon published numbering plans for each country. Additional attributes such as the kind of phone number (Mobile, Geographic or Non-Geographic) are also included, and all parsing is performed locally within the library using embedded in-memory data files.

using PhoneNumbers;

// Parsing a phone number is achieved via the `PhoneNumber.Parse` method (or alternatively via `PhoneNumber.TryParse`). Any formatting (e.g. spaces or hyphens) in the input string is ignored.
var phoneNumber = PhoneNumber.Parse("+441142726444"); // or Parse("01142726444", CountryInfo.UnitedKingdom) or Parse("01142726444", "GB")

phoneNumber.NationalDestinationCode;     // 114     (aka area code)
phoneNumber.SubscriberNumber;            // 2726444 (aka line number)

// Country specific information is accessible via the Country property, for example:
phoneNumber.Country.CallingCode;         // 44
phoneNumber.Country.Iso3166Code;         // GB
phoneNumber.Country.Name;                // United Kingdom
phoneNumber.Country.TrunkPrefix;         // 0

// There are 3 subclasses of PhoneNumber, the correct type to cast to can be determined by inspecting the phoneNumber.Kind property. Cast as appropriate to access additional properties.
var geographicPhoneNumber = (GeographicPhoneNumber)phoneNumber;
geographicPhoneNumber.GeographicArea;    // Sheffield

// The phone number can be formatted in the following ways, the default format output can be round tripped via `PhoneNumber.Parse()` to easily support persistence and serialization use cases.
phoneNumber.ToString();                  // +441142726444       (defaults to E.164 format)
phoneNumber.ToString("E.164");           // +441142726444       (E.164 format)
phoneNumber.ToString("E.123");           // +44 114 272 6444    (E.123 international format)
phoneNumber.ToString("N");               // (0114) 272 6444     (E.123 national notation format)
phoneNumber.ToString("RFC3966");         // tel:+44-114-272-644 (RFC3966 format)

Builds for:

• .NET 8.0
• .NET Standard 2.1 - supports .NET Core 3.0 or newer and .NET 5.0 or newer
• .NET Standard 2.0 - supports .NET Framework 4.6.2 or newer, however projects will need to be built with a minimum C# language version of 9.0 due to use of init only properties

Limitations

The library does not:

• Yet support every country
• Provide certainty that a phone number is assigned and in use
• Include the original carrier for mobile phone numbers due to number portability in most countries
• Support extension numbers, although they are ignored if specified when parsing a value in RFC3966 format or in the older German style 0234/123456-10
• Support alphabetic mnemonic system/alphabetic phone-words (e.g. 123-PHONEME)