libphonenumber\PhoneNumberUtil::extractCountryCode PHP Method

    protected function extractCountryCode(&$fullNumber, &$nationalNumber)
    {
        if (mb_strlen($fullNumber) == 0 || $fullNumber[0] == '0') {
            // Country codes do not begin with a '0'.
            return 0;
        }
        $numberLength = mb_strlen($fullNumber);
        for ($i = 1; $i <= static::MAX_LENGTH_COUNTRY_CODE && $i <= $numberLength; $i++) {
            $potentialCountryCode = (int) substr($fullNumber, 0, $i);
            if (isset($this->countryCallingCodeToRegionCodeMap[$potentialCountryCode])) {
                $nationalNumber .= substr($fullNumber, $i);
                return $potentialCountryCode;
            }
        }
        return 0;
    }