How to handle country specific phone number variations ? (ex: prefix zero in some countries)

[gkpo]

In France for instance, phone numbers are usually written as:
06 65 11 22 33
The valid equivalent to this number is:
+336 65 11 22 33

Now with react-native-international-phone-number if a user selects France as a country, it will automatically prefix +33 in front of the number. However, not everybody will know that they have to remove the zero prefix when they see +33.
So in my case, I sometimes end up with this number being saved to the database:
+3306 65 11 22 33

Is there a way to handle this kind of country specific variations in user input ? I don't know what variations exist in each country so I'm wondering if this library has something doing this.

I think ideally it would detect that a zero has been inserted, and put it in parenthesis like so:
+33(0)6 65 11 22 33 -> On the user interface
+336 65 11 22 33 -> Saved to the DB

[AstrOOnauta]

Hey @gkpo! Thanks for your issue, an interesting point that I wasn't aware of...
I will think about a solution soon...

But, for now..you can remove the 0 (usying substring method) if the phoneNumber started with 0 before saving to your DB.

🚀 AstrOOnauta 🚀

[gkpo]

Yes, that's what I ended up doing :) thanks for your work!

[Bilal-Abdeen]

@AstrOOnauta Thank you for the great library. I would like to add my vote to implement the option to remove zeros inserted between the country code and the local phone number. Some other libraries provide this feature as a method.

Example 1:
https://github.com/thegamenicorus/react-native-phone-input/blob/43d935639a7806b25a9fef15be6c9f6fcd8c88b4/lib/index.js#L166

Example 2:
garganurag893/react-native-phone-number-input#20 (comment)