regex - Remove Phone number from string in PHP

Question

i want to remove phone number with follow match

one two three four five six seven eight nine zero

i have tried following

$regexp = "/[one|two|three|four|five|six|seven|eight|zero]{4,}/";
$message = preg_replace($regexp , 'XXX', $message); 

Any one please help

Answer 1

At the risk of teaching a man to fish...

I swear by regexbuddy when crafting regex patterns. They have a library of patterns for phone numbers as well. It's really easy to build a pattern and see its result. It's a swiss army knife for programming. I've used it for 7 years and it's always open on my computer.

Also, it can generate php code (as well as javascript, etc.) for a number of different scenarios.