Re: Regex for telephone numbers
| From: | Daniel P. Brown | Date: | Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:36:18 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Regex for telephone numbers | ||
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On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 19:09, Jim Lucas <lists@cmsws.com> wrote:
>
> Actually...
>
> Specified here [1] it says that the {1,} is the same as '+'. I think you should
> drop the comma. If you don't this would be valid 844-2345-123456
>
> ^[2-9]{1,}[0-9]{2,}\-[2-9]{1,}[0-9]{2,}\-[0-9]{4,}$
>
> should be
>
> ^[2-9]{1}[0-9]{2}\-[2-9]{1}[0-9]{2}\-[0-9]{4}$
Bah, you're absolutely correct. Force of habit with the commas.
I didn't even notice the sample test cases I put into that test array
didn't check for more than the number of digits per field, either.
Good catch, Jim, and Happy New Year.
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