What is the regex pattern to allow numbers and some special characters?

Question

I need a regex to allow numbers and some special characters like + . - ( ).
The Phone number formats my like.

9999 999 999
9999999999
999999
+91 99 99 99 9999
999.999.999
99 (999) 99 99 etc..

Like any format. Is there any one Help me.

I have tried Lot number of answers in stack overflow but I can't get better one.

did you want to match only numbers without special characters? — Avinash Raj, Jul 11 '14 at 14:32
`I have tried Lot number of answers in stack overflow` - show them, we might be able to find something simple to fix — Ian, Jul 11 '14 at 14:36
@lan. similar question is http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3256547/regex-simple-phone-number.. any many are there — chandu, Jul 11 '14 at 15:10
@chandu I meant show your attempts. Surely, regular expressions from other answer won't perfectly fit your need — Ian, Jul 11 '14 at 17:10
possible duplicate of [A comprehensive regex for phone number validation](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/123559/a-comprehensive-regex-for-phone-number-validation) — HamZa, Jul 12 '14 at 03:00

Avinash Raj · Answer 1 · 2014-07-11T14:43:39.580

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The below regex would match the lines which contains numbers and special characters(.+)(-),

^[-()+ .]?(?:[0-9]+[-()+ .]+)+[0-9]+$

edited Jul 11 '14 at 14:43

answered Jul 11 '14 at 14:37

Avinash Raj

also you can escape special characters (for example - .) with backslash \. – vodolaz095 Jul 11 '14 at 14:45
`-` don't need escaping if we put it at the first or at the last in char class. – Avinash Raj Jul 11 '14 at 14:47
@Avinash Raj. your solution is great. but here It support consecutive special characters. can we avoid those things – chandu Jul 11 '14 at 14:55
@chandu for this `99 (999)` we need a consecutive special characters. – Avinash Raj Jul 11 '14 at 15:02
@AvinashRaj. good answer but not support two dots . and two + and (). like +555(555).4114656.()5454 – chandu Jul 11 '14 at 15:05
@chandu give some example list of all possibilities. – Avinash Raj Jul 11 '14 at 15:34
@Avinash Raj allow only single + sign that to at starting position. format must start with number or + and not allow two consecutive dots .. and () and -- – chandu Jul 12 '14 at 07:24

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