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yep this did it. i just removed the periods cuz they wern't needed. thanks again. its a bit long and twisted but it works and its better than what i had before prefix := 43 MsgBox, % clipboard := RegExReplace(RegExReplace(RegExReplace(RegExReplace(clipboard, "(\(0\))|(\(1\))"), "\\|\/|\)|\(|\s|\."),...

ok so i ended up with this, which should cover everything, whether the number has other characters between the prefix and itself or not, whether there's a other characters between the plus and the prefix or not, and it should work even if the number is written without the prefix but starts with what...

Thanks again for all the help. sofista your idea would work except that my code searches a phone number on a website of my choosing and sometimes it has no prefix and somethimes it starts with 00%prefix%. And the prefix is determined by the country that was selected in a dropdownlist and some countr...

clipboard := "+(43) 664 / 333 2508" MsgBox, % clipboard := RegExReplace(RegExReplace(clipboard, "^(\+\d+|00\d+|(\+\(\d+)\))"), "\D") Plug in the patern at https://regex101.com/ and hover over the different tokens to get an explanation of what they are. im so sorry but i just realized that numbers c...

thank you so much boiler, for answering me and for the other responses you've given to other questions i had in the past. you're a life-saver

clipboard := "+43 664 / 333 2508" MsgBox, % RegExReplace(clipboard, "\+\d+\s+") Assumes the prefix always starts with + . If that's not the case, describe the other possible cases. the other cases are when the number is something like "00prefix" or "+ prefix" or "+(prefix)" and im sorry to ask this...

i'm trying to get the phone number without the prefix (+43 in this case but i want a general solution) and anything else but numbers but as soon as i put %prefix% instead of 43 in ReplaceTermsTel2 it stops working and outputs the phone number with it still attached. i tried having %prefix% inside th...