Re: Re: Regex for telephone numbers

Hi Ethan, Could you do a string compare and check at certain characters for a dash? IE: check the second character to see if it is a dash for 1-800... if that is not a dash, check the fourth character for a dash, 469-9... then the other places where dashes would be based on those two characters. You may have to investigate how international numbers would work and adjust appropriately, but for the US, that should work. Then just send an error message when it isn't like you want. JAT Karl On Dec 29, 2010, at 6:27 PM, Josh Kehn wrote:

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 MySQL 5.1 PHP 5 Linux [Debian (sid)] --PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

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 ___________________________ http://joshuakehn.com Sent from my iPod -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

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