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Filtering phone numbers

Now, you need to write a script for a cell-phone searcher. It should scan a list of phone numbers and return those that meet certain characteristics.

The phone numbers in the list have the structure:

  • Optional area code: 3 numbers
  • Prefix: 4 numbers
  • Line number: 6 numbers
  • Optional extension: 2 numbers

E.g. 654-8764-439434-01.

You decide to use .findall() and the non-capturing group's negative lookahead (?!) and negative lookbehind (?<!).

The list cellphones, containing three phone numbers, and the re module are loaded in your session. You can use print() to view the data in the IPython Shell.

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Regular Expressions in Python

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for phone in cellphones:
	# Get all phone numbers not preceded by area code
	number = re.____(r"(____-)____-____-____", ____)
	print(number)
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