regular expression for phone no

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need a regular expression for phone no that accept numbers and '-',it must start with a number.
currently am using this @"/^\d{10}$/" but its not working fine.

Posted 7-Aug-14 1:07am

Nainaaa

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Neetin_1809 7-Aug-14 8:54am

Are you using with asp.net or desktop based applications? Give Some example which it should accepts and which it does not accept .

Nainaaa 8-Aug-14 5:53am

desktop app,it should accept 33333,55-34242-24242-22,3-13131-133113 etc it should accept numbers and -,
it should not accept the -222111,33333-,4444---2222,33--11 etc

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*Karthik Harve* · Answer 1 · 2014-08-07T01:34:00

Solution 1

Hi

try using this:-

^(?:\([2-9]\d{2}\)\ ?|[2-9]\d{2}(?:\-?|\ ?))[2-9]\d{2}[- ]?\d{4}$

Matches
5305551212
(530) 555-1212
530-555-1212

refer For More[^]
Regular Expression Library[^]

hope this helps

Posted 7-Aug-14 1:34am

Karthik Harve

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Richard MacCutchan 7-Aug-14 7:37am

+5, I'm always impressed with people who can write REs like the above.

Karthik Harve 7-Aug-14 7:48am

Thanks Richard :)

Raul Iloc 7-Aug-14 7:42am

You have my vote (5).

Karthik Harve 7-Aug-14 7:48am

Thanks Raul :)

TrushnaK · Answer 2 · 2014-08-07T01:42:00

Solution 2

Try this:-

/^[0-9]\d{2,4}-\d{6,8}$/

Posted 7-Aug-14 1:42am

TrushnaK

deepankarbhatnagar · Answer 3 · 2014-08-07T02:18:00

Solution 3

CSS

Hi, please refer for you solution, may be it helps :

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/123559/a-comprehensive-regex-for-phone-number-validation


One more link for you help :

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16699007/regular-expression-to-match-standard-10-digit-phone-number

Posted 7-Aug-14 2:18am

deepankarbhatnagar