Google Script - Find and Replace using "Search Within Formulas" - replace

Question

I have a google sheet that receives a list of phone numbers from an outside source. Phone numbers arrive in one of two formats:
Numbers that appear as 12345678901 are seen without error.
Numbers that appear as 1(234)567-8901 result in #ERROR!.
It seems that google sheets is reading the second set of numbers as a formula. When I click into an error cell, the phone number is preceded with "=+", as in "=[phone]". I can fix this manually for the entire document by using Find and Replace with "Search within Formulas" checked.
Find: "=+"
Replace: " "
Is there any way to automate this within google apps scripts? I would like to run this function onEdit() so that #ERROR! phone numbers are fixed in real time.

Answer 1

You can remove the ()- characters using a spreadsheet formula, let's say the number was in cell A1, then in another cell you can put:
=CONCATENATE(SPLIT(A1, "()-" ))
which will remove the ()- characters.
If you would like to do this with a script then you can use replace to remove the ()-
.replace(/[()-]/gi, "")
apply above your number column range to properly format number.
EDIT
This should work, change "A1:A" to your column
function onEdit(){
var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet();
var range = sheet.getRange("A1:A" + sheet.getLastRow());
var data = range.getValues();
var formulas = range.getFormulas();
for (var i=0;i< formulas.length;i++) {
if(typeof formulas[i] !== "undefined" && formulas[i] != ""){
formulas[i][0] = formulas[i][0].replace(/[=()+-]/gi, "");
data[i][0] = formulas[i][0].toString();
}
}
range.setValues(data).setNumberFormat("0");
}