Re: Regular Expression for a UK mobile phone number
| From: | Michal Migurski | Date: | Thu, 08 Apr 2004 16:59:42 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Regular Expression for a UK mobile phone number | ||
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>I am trying to create a regular expression for a mobile phone number. The
>number must be 12 digits long(0-9) and begin with 447 and have no spaces.
>So far I have come up with this but it keeps telling me the number is
>invalid even when its correct!
Try this:
$regexp = "/447[0-9]{9}/";
if($_POST[mobile_number] != ''){
if(!preg_match( $regexp, $_POST[mobile_number] )){
$error = "Invalid Mobile Number";
header("Location:edit_rep.php?error=$error&rep_id=".$_GET[rep_id]."&client_id=".$_GET[client_id]."&rep_name=".$_GET[rep_name]."&client_name=".$_GET[client_name]."");
exit;
}
}
Also, your regexp is a little permissive; you can anchor it like so:
$regexp = "/^447[0-9]{9}$/";
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