Re: Regex for telephone numbers
| From: | Josh Kehn | Date: | Thu, 30 Dec 2010 00:27:05 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Regex for telephone numbers | ||
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On Dec 29, 2010, at 7:12 PM, Ethan Rosenberg <ethros@earthlink.net> 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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