# Formatt phone number **URL:** \ **Category:** Ask for Help\ **Created:** [June 29, 2023, 12:15am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/formatt-phone-number/63282 "2023-06-29T00:15:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![Eric\_Penn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/eric_penn/32/73888_2.png) [@Eric\_Penn](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Eric_Penn)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 12:23am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/formatt-phone-number/63282/2 "2023-06-29T00:23:53Z")
Here’s a gem 💎 from Darren > [@I need help with regular expressions and formatting](https://community.glideapps.com/t/i-need-help-with-regular-expressions-and-formatting/62863/3): > > I started having a look at this yesterday, and ended up going down a bit of a rabbit hole, so I put it aside. Had another look just now and it occurred to me that all you really need to do is strip out all the non-digits and then return the last 9 characters of whatever is remaining. So with that in mind, here is a bit of rough and ready JavaScript that does that. I’m sure it could be improved. const parts = p1.split(''); let digits = []; while (parts.length \> 0) { let bit = parts.shift(); … --- _[View the full topic](https://community.glideapps.com/t/formatt-phone-number/63282)._