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Reg exp for phone number

I have a regular expression which I believe is correct but it's not behaving
as expected. It is as follows:

/\+?\d+[-\s\d]*\d+/

The idea is that a phone number is allowed to be of the form: optional +
followed by one or more digits followed by any combination of hyphens,
spaces and digits followed by at least one digit.

However, this regexp is letting through all sorts of expressions as long as
they've got two adjacent digits it seems.

Grateful for help!

Thanks,
Erik
Jul 20 '05 #1
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Erik Jälevik wrote on 06 nov 2003 in comp.lang.javascript:
I have a regular expression which I believe is correct but it's not
behaving as expected. It is as follows:

/\+?\d+[-\s\d]*\d+/

The idea is that a phone number is allowed to be of the form: optional
+ followed by one or more digits followed by any combination of
hyphens, spaces and digits followed by at least one digit.

However, this regexp is letting through all sorts of expressions as
long as they've got two adjacent digits it seems.


The expression should have begin and end markers:

/^\+?\d+[-\s\d]*\d+$/

even simpler:

/^\+?\d[-\s\d]*\d$/

mind the \s also matches other white space types.
--
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)
Jul 20 '05 #2

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