1694. Reformat Phone Number

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    Problem

    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:

    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".
    

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    Solution (Java)

    class Solution {
        public String reformatNumber(String number) {
            StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
            for (char c : number.toCharArray()) {
                if (Character.isDigit(c)) {
                    sb.append(c);
                }
            }
            String cleaned = sb.toString();
            sb.setLength(0);
            int i = 0;
            while (i < cleaned.length()) {
                if (i + 4 == cleaned.length()) {
                    sb.append(cleaned, i, i + 2);
                    sb.append("-");
                    sb.append(cleaned.substring(i + 2));
                    break;
                } else if (i + 3 <= cleaned.length()) {
                    sb.append(cleaned, i, i + 3);
                    sb.append("-");
                    i += 3;
                } else {
                    sb.append(cleaned.substring(i));
                    break;
                }
            }
            if (sb.charAt(sb.length() - 1) == '-') {
                sb.setLength(sb.length() - 1);
            }
            return sb.toString();
        }
    }
    

    Explain:

    nope.

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