RegEx for swiss phone number

Question

I need a RegEx to do the validation (using Laravel, a php framework) for a swiss phone number which has to fit this format:

+41 11 111 11 11

The "+41" part has to be exactly this way while the rest (11 111 11 11) can be any number between 1 and 9.

The function that invokes the RegEx looks like this:

    $regex = "thisIsWhereINeedYourHelp";

    if (preg_match($regex, $value)) {
               return true;
            } 
    return true;

Thanks for your help!

Possible duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/123559/a-comprehensive-regex-for-phone-number-validation?rq=1 — Kryten, Apr 11 '14 at 14:55

score 9 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 08 '20 at 08:14

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This is the pattern I use:

/(\b(0041|0)|\B\+41)(\s?\(0\))?(\s)?[1-9]{2}(\s)?[0-9]{3}(\s)?[0-9]{2}(\s)?[0-9]{2}\b/

it matches all the following:

+41 11 111 11 11
+41 (0) 11 111 11 11
+41111111111
+41(0)111111111
00411111111
0041 11 111 11 11
0041 (0) 11 111 11 11
011 111 11 11
0111111111

any of the spaces can be left out and it checks for the word and non word boundaries.

answered Jan 08 '20 at 08:14

ParrapbanzZ

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in case you only want to match numbers with country prefix, starting with 0041 or +41 `/(\b(0041)|\B\+41)(\s?\(0\))?(\s)?[1-9]{2}(\s)?[0-9]{3}(\s)?[0-9]{2}(\s)?[0-9]{2}\b/` – F.H. Dec 23 '20 at 17:19
This regex here works as opposed to the answer https://gist.github.com/peyerluk/8357036 – zyrup Nov 08 '22 at 07:08

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 11 '14 at 14:54

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You can do it as:

(\+41)\s(\d{2})\s(\d{3})\s(\d{2})\s(\d{2})

Demo: http://regex101.com/r/hJ9oY0

answered Apr 11 '14 at 14:54

sshashank124

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Change each `\s` to `\s?` if you want to match `+41 00 111 22 33` and also `+41001112233` – SimonS Oct 17 '18 at 08:00
Yes ideally you want to be able to accept numbers seperated with/without spaces or also with hyphens – sshashank124 Oct 17 '18 at 09:52
@sshashank124 hyphens are not a thing in the swiss telepohone realm – James Cazzetta Jul 02 '21 at 13:29

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 11 '14 at 14:55

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Here is a regex which would work fine with a Swiss Phone Number:

^(\+?)(\d{2,4})(\s?)(\-?)((\(0\))?)(\s?)(\d{2})(\s?)(\-?)(\d{3})(\s?)(\-?)(\d{2})(\s?)(\-?)(\d{2})

answered Apr 11 '14 at 14:55

Guns

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In Switzerland, we never write phone numbers with a hyphen, so you could actually omit every `(\-?)` in this regex – SimonS Oct 17 '18 at 11:38

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 29 '17 at 17:38

I first cleanup the string a bit (that avoids useless matches):

// input string cleanup
$input = preg_replace('/[^0-9+\(\)-]/', '', $input);

I than match a swiss number:

// swiss telephone validation +41 (0)xx xxx xxxx
if(preg_match('/^(\+41|0041|0){1}(\(0\))?[0-9]{9}$/',$input))
        $result = "match: CH";
else    $result = "no match";

this should match all swiss formats and be fairly reliable

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 02 '17 at 17:47

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You can use Laravel-Phone package for Validation, Formatting and more functionality.

In your case you can specify you country like this :

'phone' => 'required|phone:CH'

CH = Switzerland (Confoederatio Helvetica)

answered Aug 02 '17 at 17:47

Nadjib Khelifati

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RegEx for swiss phone number

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