Re: Regex for telephone numbers

On Wed, 2010-12-29 at 19:35 -0500, Daniel P. Brown wrote: > On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 19:12, 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. > > Congrats. People in Hell would like ice water. Now we all know > that everyone wants something. ;-P > > Really, this isn't a PHP question, but rather one of regular > expressions. That said, something like this (untested) should work: > > <?php > > $numbers = array( > '123-456-7890', > '2-654-06547', > 'sf34-asdf-', > 'abc-def-ghij', > '555_555_5555', > '000-000-0000', > '8007396325', > '241-555-2091', > '800-555-0129', > '900-976-739', > '5352-342=452', > '200-200-2000', > ); > > foreach ($numbers as $n) { > echo $n.(validate_phone($n) ? ' is ' : ' is not ').'a valid > US/Canadian telephone number.'.PHP_EOL; > } > > > function validate_phone($number) { > > if > (preg_match('/^[2-9]{1,}[0-9]{2,}\-[2-9]{1,}[0-9]{2,}\-[0-9]{4,}$/',trim($number))) > { > return true; > } > > return false; > } > ?> > ^^^^ THIS ^^^^ is the regex you want to use... it is the most complete one that has been posted here, and it works.