I am having trouble find regex validation patterns for phone numbers in different countries and have little time to try and write my own and was hoping a regex guru would be able to help.
I've checked the usual sources like regexlib already, so if anyone can help i'd be grateful with any of them
I need a separate phone number validation expression for each of the following:
Instead of making an elaborate regular expression to match how you think your visitor will input their phone number, try a different approach. Take the phone number input and strip out the symbols. Then the regular expression can be simple and just check for 10 numeric digits (US number, for example). Then if you need to save the phone number in a consistent format, build that format off of the 10 digits.
This example validates U.S. phone numbers by looking for 10 numeric digits.
protected bool IsValidPhone(string strPhoneInput)
{
// Remove symbols (dash, space and parentheses, etc.)
string strPhone = Regex.Replace(strPhoneInput, @”[- ()\*\!]“, String.Empty);
// Check for exactly 10 numbers left over
Regex regTenDigits = new Regex(@”^\d{10}$”);
Match matTenDigits = regTenDigits.Match(strPhone);
return matTenDigits.Success;
}
Phone number is a number, what you want to validate there ?
Here you can see how different numbers look like.
And there is no such country like Asia, this is a mainland with several countries.
It's close to impossible to get a single regular expression that will cover all countries.
I'd go with [0-9+][0-9() ]* -- this simply allows any digit to start (or the "+" character), then any combination of digits or parentheses or spaces.
In general validation any further is not really going to be of much use. If the user of the page wants to be contacted by phone, they'll enter a valid phone number -- if not, then they won't.
A better way to enforce a correct phone number and eliminate most simple miskeying is to require the number to be entered twice -- then the user is likely to at least check it!
