Reg Ex for validating phone number

Question

I want to create a regular expression for validating phone numbers.

For example:
+381 493 34949499

+381 - 1-4 numbers
493 - 2-3 numbers
34949499 - 5-15 numbers

'/^\+\d{3} \(\d{2,3}\) \d{5,16}$/')

I trid something like this but I got an error in +381 (country code).

Remove all non-digits, check the number of digits and reformat it any way you want. — Cheery, Nov 25 '14 at 20:16

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 25 '14 at 20:30

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Better use a proper module, perl have Number::Phone module to validate phone numbers.

answered Nov 25 '14 at 20:30

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 25 '14 at 20:34

Probably you should not build that yourself, as there is a huge amount of different writing styles for phone numbers and I myself often get annoyed by services which implemented that stuff by theirselves. See here (Wikipedia) and check out some people who already put some work in there: Regexlib. To have some general advice: I would rather use \b as word boundaries instead of ^ and $ which are line boundaries. Probably you would want to use a tool like Regexr or Rubular to test your regular expressions first. Regexr also coems with examples for different stuff.

Reg Ex for validating phone number

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