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John Seed
John Seed

Reputation: 397

Regular Expression PHP Phone Number

I am making a regular expression that will read phone numbers from a PHP form. I have the expression most of the way completed. It needs to read a phone number in any of the following formats:

623-456-7890

456-7890

6234567890

4567890

623.456.7890

456.7890

623 456 7890

456 7890

The expression I have made at this point is the following:

(([0-9]{3}){0,1})((\W){0,1})([0-9]{3})((\W){0,1})([0-9]{4})

It mostly works, the only phone number it doesn't read is the third one in the above list (6234567890). What would I have to add or change to make it read that phone number?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 146

Answers (3)

Nicholas Summers
Nicholas Summers

Reputation: 4776

/(?:[\(]?\d{3}[\)\.\- ]?)?\d{3}[\.\- ]?\d{4}/

Here it is in practice: http://regex101.com/r/pL3dB0/3

Upvotes: 1

AbsoluteƵERØ
AbsoluteƵERØ

Reputation: 7880

Real phone numbers are much more complicated than this because of exchanges and so forth. This will match numbers, periods and hyphens, not all are required, but it also doesn't check for valid phone numbers.

([0-9]{3})?[ .-]?([0-9]{3})[ .-]?([0-9]{4})

Upvotes: 1

turkersenturk
turkersenturk

Reputation: 68

That's much better:

([0-9]{3})?\W*([0-9]{3})\W*([0-9]{4})

Upvotes: 2

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