Question

This is almost certainly something really silly that I’ve overlooked but I’m stumped. The following C# style expression is supposed to match phones numbers (a limited subset of them, but this is just testing…):

^[0-9]{3}-[0-9]{3}-[0-9]{4}$ 

The search string is as follows:

978-454-0586\r\nother junk\r\nmore junk\r\nhttp://www.google.com\r\n 

The expression matches the phone number when in isolation, however not when next to other stuff. For example, if I lop off everything after the phone it works just great.

How can I modify the expression so that it matches the phone number and doesn’t get hung up on the rest of the junk?

Thanks!

Answer 1

The ^ and $ symbols mean ‘beginning of line’ and ‘end of line’ respectively. Get rid of them if you want to match in the middle of a line.