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user3895591
user3895591

Reputation: 117

Validating UK phone number (Regex C#)

public static bool ValidatePhoneNumber(string number)
{
    return Regex.Match(number, "^(\+44\s?7\d{3}|\(?07\d{3}\)?)\s?\d{3}\s?\d{3}$", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase).Success;
}

This is what I have but I get errors saying Unrecognized escape sequence. Can anbody help? needs to be able to have +44.

Upvotes: 8

Views: 16221

Answers (5)

Nitika Chopra
Nitika Chopra

Reputation: 1405

Try this code,

    using System.Text.RegularExpressions; 
    public static bool CheckNumber(string strPhoneNumber)
    {
            string MatchNumberPattern = "^\(?([0-9]{3})\)?[-. ]?([0-9]{3})[-. ]?([0-9]{4})$";
            if (strPhoneNumber != null)
            {
                return Regex.IsMatch(strPhoneNumber, MatchNumberPattern);
            }
            else
            {
                return false;
            }
     }

Hope, this code helps you.

Upvotes: 0

Francis Benyah
Francis Benyah

Reputation: 577

This works well and allows 3 and 4 digit extensions. It also ensures that only mobile numbers are entered. UK mobile numbers start with 07 regardless of the provider

^(\+44\s?7\d{3}|\(?07\d{3}\)?)\s?\d{3}\s?\d{3}(\s?\#(\d{4}|\d{3}))?$

Upvotes: 1

RattyLaa
RattyLaa

Reputation: 323

This is a pretty solid regex, will handle area codes, extension numbers and the +44 international code as well as mobile numbers and even 10 digit numbers:

^(?:(?:\(?(?:0(?:0|11)\)?[\s-]?\(?|\+)44\)?[\s-]?(?:\(?0\)?[\s-]?)?)|(?:\(?0))(?:(?:\d{5}\)?[\s-]?\d{4,5})|(?:\d{4}\)?[\s-]?(?:\d{5}|\d{3}[\s-]?\d{3}))|(?:\d{3}\)?[\s-]?\d{3}[\s-]?\d{3,4})|(?:\d{2}\)?[\s-]?\d{4}[\s-]?\d{4}))(?:[\s-]?(?:x|ext\.?|\#)\d{3,4})?$

Upvotes: 7

user3913543
user3913543

Reputation: 21

Try using this:

^(\+44\\s?7\\d{3}|\(?07\\d{3}\)?)\\s?\\d{3}\\s?\\d{3}$

In order for the regex to recognize the \s, \d, etc you need to put double slash \\. If not you'll get an illegal escape character error.

Upvotes: 2

Rahul Tripathi
Rahul Tripathi

Reputation: 172408

You may try this regex if you are trying to get it with +44

^(((\+44\s?\d{4}|\(?0\d{4}\)?)\s?\d{3}\s?\d{3})|((\+44\s?\d{3}|\(?0\d{3}\)?)\s?\d{3}\s?\d{4})|((\+44\s?\d{2}|\(?0\d{2}\)?)\s?\d{4}\s?\d{4}))(\s?\#(\d{4}|\d{3}))?$

This will match for

+447222555555 | +44 7222 555 555 | (0722) 5555555 #2222

REGEX DEMO

You can try this regex for UK phone numbers:

/^\(?0( *\d\)?){9,10}$/

This regex will check for 10 or 11 digit numbers which are there in UK numbers, starting with a 0, which may have formatting spaces between any of the digits, and optionally a set of brackets for the area code.

Also in your regex you need to add @ to get rid of that error(Unrecognized escape sequence):

public static bool ValidatePhoneNumber(string number)
{
   return Regex.Match(number, @"^(\+44\s?7\d{3}|\(?07\d{3}\)?)\s?\d{3}\s?\d{3}$", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase).Success;
}

Upvotes: 16

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