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Grouping is one of the most powerful aspects of regular expressions - it lets you match portions of the string and refer to them later, instead of having one big match.
In this problem, you'll be reformatting phone numbers into a standard format.
You can read more about grouping in the documentation or this blog post. You will also probably want to check the documentation for String#gsub.
Rubular is a fantastic website for getting quick feedback about your regex.
To start, you'll want to clone and run the setup script for the repo
git clone [email protected]:thoughtbot-upcase-exercises/regular-expressions-advanced.git
cd regular-expressions-advanced
bin/setup
First, run bin/setup, then run rake to see the failing tests.
Make the tests pass one by one.
You can run rake at any point to re-run the tests.
If you find yourself stuck, be sure to check out the associated Upcase Forum discussion for this exercise to see what other folks have said.
When you've finished the exercise, head on back to the Regular Expressions course to find the next exercise, or explore any of the other great content on Upcase.
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