1694. Reformat Phone Number

https://leetcode.com/problems/reformat-phone-number

Description

You are given a phone number as a string number. number consists of digits, spaces ' ', and/or dashes '-'.

You would like to reformat the phone number in a certain manner. Firstly, remove all spaces and dashes. Then, group the digits from left to right into blocks of length 3 until there are 4 or fewer digits. The final digits are then grouped as follows:

  • 2 digits: A single block of length 2.

  • 3 digits: A single block of length 3.

  • 4 digits: Two blocks of length 2 each.

The blocks are then joined by dashes. Notice that the reformatting process should never produce any blocks of length 1 and produce at most two blocks of length 2.

Return the phone number after formatting.

Example 1:

**Input:** number = "1-23-45 6"
**Output:** "123-456"
**Explanation:** The digits are "123456".
Step 1: There are more than 4 digits, so group the next 3 digits. The 1st block is "123".
Step 2: There are 3 digits remaining, so put them in a single block of length 3. The 2nd block is "456".
Joining the blocks gives "123-456".

Example 2:

**Input:** number = "123 4-567"
**Output:** "123-45-67"
**Explanation:** The digits are "1234567".
Step 1: There are more than 4 digits, so group the next 3 digits. The 1st block is "123".
Step 2: There are 4 digits left, so split them into two blocks of length 2. The blocks are "45" and "67".
Joining the blocks gives "123-45-67".

Example 3:

**Input:** number = "123 4-5678"
**Output:** "123-456-78"
**Explanation:** The digits are "12345678".
Step 1: The 1st block is "123".
Step 2: The 2nd block is "456".
Step 3: There are 2 digits left, so put them in a single block of length 2. The 3rd block is "78".
Joining the blocks gives "123-456-78".

Example 4:

**Input:** number = "12"
**Output:** "12"

Example 5:

**Input:** number = "--17-5 229 35-39475 "
**Output:** "175-229-353-94-75"

Constraints:

  • 2 <= number.length <= 100

  • number consists of digits and the characters '-' and ' '.

  • There are at least two digits in number.

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