[tpm] Regex to validate (international) phone numbers

[Alex Beamish]

On 7/31/07, Madison Kelly <mkelly at alteeve.com> wrote:

> [..]


> How might I go about checking telephone numbers from both NA and
> international?


Hi Madison,

How rigorous does this test have to be? Once you've answered that question,
then you can move towards a solution.

If the answer is 'not that rigorous', I'd suggest you ask for the phone
number in an International format, which is

  + $countryCode $everythingElse

Since North America is where the phone was developed, we get the #1 country
code, and everything else is a three digit area code and a seven digit
number. Other country's numbers vary, even within countries, I think.

Or you can go the other route and follow E.164 (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.164). That's useful, actually, as it limits a
phone number to 15 digits.

So as long as the phone number string consists of just numbers, spaces,
hyphens and perhaps a leading '+', and as long as there are no more than 15
digits, I'd say it passes.

-- 
Alex Beamish
Toronto, Ontario
aka talexb
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