regex phone number

[doug007]

Hi Guys,

 

I am trying to write a regex that will allow a number of any length and can contain spaces or plus sign or brackets like so, but it should not accept any letter (a-z):

 

0207 7895 478

02077895478

+44(0)207 7895 478

 

thanks

 

[thebadbad]

~^[0-9 +()]*$~D

 

Remember that it also will match an empty string, or something odd like +() ++)++( +( ((

[nrg_alpha]

So assuming this is a form field for a phone number, I would simply have the user enter the area code and number, but allow them to format it the way they are comfortable with and simply strip out all non-numerical characters and use what you have left. This short one page long thread touches base on this issue.

[thebadbad]

So assuming this is a form field for a phone number, I would simply have the user enter the area code and number, but allow them to format it the way they are comfortable with and simply strip out all non-numerical characters and use what you have left. This short one page long thread touches base on this issue.

 

That is actually a nice way of doing it.