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Haithem Rihane
Haithem Rihane

Reputation: 394

How to create a custom phone number regex

I'm using php and searching for the right regex form my country phone number. I'm not good with regex but i did some research on the possible patterns of my country phone number's and those are:

plz help me save my day !!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1698

Answers (4)

Adnen Chouibi
Adnen Chouibi

Reputation: 416

Try with this validator symfony if you wont https://github.com/haithem-rihane/sfValidatorTnPhone

/^((+|00)216)?([2579][0-9]{7}|(3[012]|4[01]|8[0128])[0-9]{6}|42[16][0-9]{5})$/

Upvotes: 0

Tobias
Tobias

Reputation: 7771

Assuming you removed all spaces (and perhaps other invalid characters):

((\+|00)216)?[0-9]{8}

This regex should match all provided examples.

Update:

Here is the "complete" regex. It is based on a Wikipedia article:

((\+|00)216)?(74|71|78|70|72|9|4|2|5|73|75|76|77|79)[0-9]{6}

What I don't know is how to handle single-digit area codes, perhaps the following regex is better:

((\+|00)216)?(74|71|78|70|72|09|04|02|05|73|75|76|77|79)[0-9]{6}

Update 2:

The final solution, this time based on another document:

((\+|00)216)?([2579][0-9]{7}|(3[012]|4[01]|8[0128])[0-9]{6}|42[16][0-9]{5})

Upvotes: 5

rodrigovr
rodrigovr

Reputation: 454

The general rule with phone numbers is simple to ignore spaces and dashes. After it you can count for the minimum and maximum number of digits and the optional plus sign.

$filteredPhone = preg_replace('/[^\+\d]/', '', $phone);
$phoneFormatOk = preg_match('/^(\+?0*216)?\d{8}$/', $filteredPhone);

Upvotes: 0

sergio
sergio

Reputation: 5260

You can use:

 if(preg_match(((\+|00)216)?[0-9]{8})) {
      // do something
    }

Or try following:

if (!preg_match('/^\+\d+$/', $phone)) 
    fail("Invalid phone number");

Upvotes: 0

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