Question

I’m trying to put together a comprehensive regex to validate phone numbers. Ideally it would handle international formats, but it must handle US formats, including the following:

• 1-234-567-8901
• 1-234-567-8901 x1234
• 1-234-567-8901 ext1234
• 1 [phone]
• 1.234.567.8901
• 1/234/567/8901
• 12345678901

I’ll answer with my current attempt, but I’m hoping somebody has something better and/or more elegant.

Answer 1

Better option… just strip all non-digit characters on input (except ‘x’ and leading ‘+’ signs), taking care because of the British tendency to write numbers in the non-standard form +44 (0) ... when asked to use the international prefix (in that specific case, you should discard the (0) entirely).

Then, you end up with values like:

 12345678901  12345678901x1234  345678901x1234  12344678901  12345678901  12345678901  12345678901  [phone]  [phone] 

Then when you display, reformat to your hearts content. e.g.

  1 [phone]   1 [phone] x1234