Remove dash from a phone number

phoneNumber.replaceAll("[\\s\\-()]", "");

The regular expression defines a character class consisting of any whitespace character (\s, which is escaped as \\s because we’re passing in a String), a dash (escaped because a dash means something special in the context of character classes), and parentheses.

See String.replaceAll(String, String).

EDIT

Per gunslinger47:

phoneNumber.replaceAll("\\D", "");

Replaces any non-digit with an empty string.

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