REGEX. What am I doing wrong?

[shapper]

Hello,

I need to create a REGEX which accepts only phone numbers.

The phone numbers start allways with 261, 21, 96 or 91 and have 7
numbers after it.

Something like. 261 1223346, 21 2334456, etc.

I tried the following but it is not working:
^(?:261|21|96|9 1)\s\d{7}$

How can I do this?

Thanks,

Miguel

[Alexey Smirnov]

On Feb 26, 2:11 pm, "shapper" <mdmo...@gmail. comwrote:

Hello,

I need to create a REGEX which accepts only phone numbers.

The phone numbers start allways with 261, 21, 96 or 91 and have 7
numbers after it.

Something like. 261 1223346, 21 2334456, etc.

I tried the following but it is not working:
^(?:261|21|96|9 1)\s\d{7}$

if (?:) means a noncapturing group then you need a parenthesis

^?:(261|21|96|9 1)\s\d{7}$

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Hi there again,

I believe it should work. I'm note sure how you utilized this regular
expression but if you're trying validate user input via regular expression
validation control
ValidationExpre ssion="^(261|21 |96|91)\s*\d{7} $"
should be enough. Otherwise, if you try to validate and get both area code
this might be an idea how to do that:

string pattern = @"^(261|21|96|9 1)\s(\d{7})$";

System.Text.Reg ularExpressions .Match match =
System.Text.Reg ularExpressions .Regex.Match(
txtPhone.Text, pattern);

if (match.Success)
{
string areaCode = match.Groups[1].Value;
string number = match.Groups[2].Value;
}
else
{
// not valid
}
--

Hope this helps

Milosz
"shapper" wrote:

Hello,

I need to create a REGEX which accepts only phone numbers.

The phone numbers start allways with 261, 21, 96 or 91 and have 7
numbers after it.

Something like. 261 1223346, 21 2334456, etc.

I tried the following but it is not working:
^(?:261|21|96|9 1)\s\d{7}$

How can I do this?

Thanks,

Miguel

[Peter Bradley]

^((261)|(21)|(9 6)|(91))\s\d{7} $

works for me
Peter

"shapper" <md*****@gmail. comwrote in message
news:11******** **************@ m58g2000cwm.goo glegroups.com.. .

Hello,

I need to create a REGEX which accepts only phone numbers.

The phone numbers start allways with 261, 21, 96 or 91 and have 7
numbers after it.

Something like. 261 1223346, 21 2334456, etc.

I tried the following but it is not working:
^(?:261|21|96|9 1)\s\d{7}$

How can I do this?

Thanks,

Miguel

[Alexey Smirnov]

On Feb 26, 2:44 pm, "Peter Bradley" <pbrad...@uwic. ac.ukwrote:

^((261)|(21)|(9 6)|(91))\s\d{7} $

works for me

Peter

"shapper" <mdmo...@gmail. comwrote in message

news:11******** **************@ m58g2000cwm.goo glegroups.com.. .

Hello,

I need to create a REGEX which accepts only phone numbers.

The phone numbers start allways with 261, 21, 96 or 91 and have 7
numbers after it.

Something like. 261 1223346, 21 2334456, etc.

I tried the following but it is not working:
^(?:261|21|96|9 1)\s\d{7}$

How can I do this?

Thanks,

Miguel- Hide quoted text -

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[shapper]

On Feb 26, 1:44 pm, "Peter Bradley" <pbrad...@uwic. ac.ukwrote:

^((261)|(21)|(9 6)|(91))\s\d{7} $

works for me

Peter

"shapper" <mdmo...@gmail. comwrote in message

news:11******** **************@ m58g2000cwm.goo glegroups.com.. .

Hello,

I need to create a REGEX which accepts only phone numbers.

The phone numbers start allways with 261, 21, 96 or 91 and have 7
numbers after it.

Something like. 261 1223346, 21 2334456, etc.

I tried the following but it is not working:
^(?:261|21|96|9 1)\s\d{7}$

How can I do this?

Thanks,

Miguel

Hi,

It really does not work. Please try:

' Create new regex
Dim regex As System.Text.Reg ularExpressions .Regex
regex = New RegularExpressi ons.Regex("^((2 61)|(21)|(96)|( 91))\s
\d{7}$")

' Check if expression is a match
Response.Write( regex.IsMatch(" 961234567").ToS tring)

It returns False.

Any idea?

Thanks,
Miguel

[shapper]

On Feb 26, 1:49 pm, "Alexey Smirnov" <alexey.smir... @gmail.comwrote :

On Feb 26, 2:44 pm, "Peter Bradley" <pbrad...@uwic. ac.ukwrote:

^((261)|(21)|(9 6)|(91))\s\d{7} $

works for me

Peter

"shapper" <mdmo...@gmail. comwrote in message

news:11******** **************@ m58g2000cwm.goo glegroups.com.. .

Hello,

I need to create a REGEX which accepts only phone numbers.

The phone numbers start allways with 261, 21, 96 or 91 and have 7
numbers after it.

Something like. 261 1223346, 21 2334456, etc.

I tried the following but it is not working:
^(?:261|21|96|9 1)\s\d{7}$

How can I do this?

Thanks,

Miguel- Hide quoted text -

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Hi Alexey,

I also tried your suggestion and a few others and it does not work.
Any idea?

Thanks,
Miguel

[Alexey Smirnov]

On Feb 26, 3:32 pm, "shapper" <mdmo...@gmail. comwrote:

On Feb 26, 1:49 pm, "Alexey Smirnov" <alexey.smir... @gmail.comwrote :

On Feb 26, 2:44 pm, "Peter Bradley" <pbrad...@uwic. ac.ukwrote:

^((261)|(21)|(9 6)|(91))\s\d{7} $

works for me

Peter

"shapper" <mdmo...@gmail. comwrote in message

>news:11******* *************** @m58g2000cwm.go oglegroups.com. ..

Hello,

I need to create a REGEX which accepts only phone numbers.

The phone numbers start allways with 261, 21, 96 or 91 and have 7
numbers after it.

Something like. 261 1223346, 21 2334456, etc.

I tried the following but it is not working:
^(?:261|21|96|9 1)\s\d{7}$

How can I do this?

Thanks,

Miguel- Hide quoted text -

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Hi Alexey,

I also tried your suggestion and a few others and it does not work.

because of \s what mean a single space

regex = New RegularExpressi ons.Regex("^((2 61)|(21)|(96)|( 91))\d{7}$")

[Peter Bradley]

The examples the OP gave were (I copy and paste):

261 1223346, 21 2334456

I assume that means a space is needed between the prefix and the last 7
digits.

So it still works for me on that basis.
Peter

Hi,

It really does not work. Please try:

' Create new regex
Dim regex As System.Text.Reg ularExpressions .Regex
regex = New RegularExpressi ons.Regex("^((2 61)|(21)|(96)|( 91))\s
\d{7}$")

' Check if expression is a match
Response.Write( regex.IsMatch(" 961234567").ToS tring)

It returns False.

Any idea?

Thanks,
Miguel

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You should have told us space is optional:

string pattern = @"^(261|21|96|9 1)\s*\d{7}$";

should do the job.
--
Milosz
"shapper" wrote:

On Feb 26, 1:44 pm, "Peter Bradley" <pbrad...@uwic. ac.ukwrote:

^((261)|(21)|(9 6)|(91))\s\d{7} $

works for me

Peter

"shapper" <mdmo...@gmail. comwrote in message

news:11******** **************@ m58g2000cwm.goo glegroups.com.. .

Hello,

I need to create a REGEX which accepts only phone numbers.

The phone numbers start allways with 261, 21, 96 or 91 and have 7
numbers after it.

Something like. 261 1223346, 21 2334456, etc.

I tried the following but it is not working:
^(?:261|21|96|9 1)\s\d{7}$

How can I do this?

Thanks,

Miguel

Hi,

It really does not work. Please try:

' Create new regex
Dim regex As System.Text.Reg ularExpressions .Regex
regex = New RegularExpressi ons.Regex("^((2 61)|(21)|(96)|( 91))\s
\d{7}$")

' Check if expression is a match
Response.Write( regex.IsMatch(" 961234567").ToS tring)

It returns False.

Any idea?

Thanks,
Miguel