Re: [PHP] Regex for telephone numbers

[Ethan Rosenberg <ethros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 07:27 PM 12/29/2010, Josh Kehn wrote:


> On Dec 29, 2010, at 7:12 PM, Ethan Rosenberg <ethros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Dear List -
> >
> > Thank you for all your help in the past.
> >
> > Here is another one....
> >
> > I would like to have a regex  which would validate that a 
> telephone number is in the format xxx-xxx-xxxx.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Ethan
> >
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> You can't, phone numbers are more complex then that. You could use 
> \d{3}-\d{3}-\d{4} to match that basic pattern for all numbers though.
>
> Regards,
>
> -Josh
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> Sent from my iPod
Josh -

I used use \d{3}-\d{3}-\d{4}.

It works beautifully!!

FYI [to all the list] -- I thank all for their input.  I only needed 
US phones, and I am forcing the user of the form to conform to 
xxx-xxx-xxxx as the input format.

Ethan
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