Can someone give me a hand, I'm getting the following lifetime error:

error: clean_number does not live long enough

Short url: http://is.gd/VIzHMS

This is the code:

#![feature(phase)]
#[phase(plugin)]

extern crate regex_macros;
extern crate regex;

use regex::Regex;

static ALPHA_REGEX: Regex = regex!(r"[a-zA-Z]");
static NUMBER_REGEX: Regex = regex!(r"[^0-9]");

fn main() {
    let number = number("ads(123) 456-7890");
    println!("{}", number);
}

fn number<'a>(number: &'a str) -> &'a str {
    let clean_number = clean(number);
    clean_number
}

fn clean<'a>(number: &'a str) -> &'a str {
    if ALPHA_REGEX.is_match(number) {
        "0000000000";
    }
    let clean_number: String = NUMBER_REGEX.replace(number, "");
    return clean_number.as_slice();
}
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