Question

I am using regular expression first time, and I really amazed! well, new discovery always amazement :).
I am using in JavaScript. I am using in following manner;(There are many fields and all are working perfectly fine except this phone formatting)

function validate(form) {
    var phone = form.phone.value;
    var phoneRegex = /^(\+|00)\d{2,3}-\d{1,2}-\d{3}-\d{4}$/g;
    //Checking 'phone' and its regular expressions  
    if(phone == "") {
      inlineMsg('phone','<strong>Error</strong><br />You must enter phone number.',2);
    return false;
    }
    if(!phone.match(deptRegex)) {
      inlineMsg('phone','<strong>Error</strong><br />Enter valid phone <br />+xxx-x-xxx-xxxx (or) <br />00xxx-x-xxx-xxxx.',2);
    return false;
    }
  return true;
}

HTML

<div id="wrapper">
  <form name="form" id="form" class="form" onsubmit="validate(this);return false">
<label for="phone">Phone:</label><input type="text" name="phone" id="phone" />
<input type="submit" value="Submit" class="submit" />
</div>

Now I am confuse that I might wrote the wrong expression but I tested it as well. I think I am mistaken to write the expression in JavaScript. Can someone help?

P.SThe following is the image from a regular expression online tester where I tested the expression.

Answer 1

I can see two problems with your code:

• You don’t have a closing </form> tag before the last </div>
• You’re using two different variable names for your regex: phoneRegex and deptRegex.

Once you correct those problems, the code runs fine. Have a look at it working on jsFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/XFWGk/

If that doesn’t work, the problem is probably your inlineMsg function. I’m not familiar with that one, so make sure you’re using it correctly.