Re: Regular Expression for a UK mobile phone number

"Michal Migurski" <mike@saturn5.com> wrote in message news:Pine.GSO.4.52.0404080955310.25459@atari... > >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=".$_GET[rep_id]."&client_i d=".$_GET[client_id]."&rep_name=".$_GET[rep_name]."&client_name=".$_GET[clie nt_name].""); > exit; > } > } > > Also, your regexp is a little permissive; you can anchor it like so: > > $regexp = "/^447[0-9]{9}$/"; > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > michal migurski- contact info and pgp key: > sf/ca http://mike.teczno.com/contact.html Thanks for your reply Michal, but the regular expression still seems to reject the number...