Question

This is the regular expression I use to match phone numbers like:

00 00 00 00 00
00 00 0 00 00 00 00
+00 0 00 00 00 00

(\d{2}\s+\d{2}\s+\d{2}\s+\d{2}\s+\d{2})\s+(\d{2}\s+\d{2}\s+\d\s+\d{2}\s+\d{2}\s+\d{2}\s+\d{2})\s+(+\d{2}\s+\d\s+\d{2}\s+\d{2}\s+\d{2}\s+\d{2})

I have tried to include it into my javascript but It’s not really working

if(document.maj_profil.phone.value.search(/^\(\d{2}\s+\d{2}\s+\d{2}\s+\d{2}\s+\d{2}\)\s+\(\d{2}\s+\d{2}\s+\d\s+\d{2}\s+\d{2}\s+\d{2}\s+\d{2}\)\s+\(+\d{2}\s+\d\s+\d{2}\s+\d{2}\s+\d{2}\s+\d{2}\)/) == -1)
    {
    displayDialog('wrong phone format')
        }

Answer 1

1. Where you have your alternative formats listed like:

   (...)\s+(...)\s+(...)
   

   Change that to use the | (OR) operator:

   (...)|(...)|(...)
   

2. Don’t escape the parentheses. \( and \) should be simply ( and ).

3. In your third group the + at the beginning should be escaped with a backslash:

   (\+\d{2}\s+\d\s+\d{2}\s+\d{2}\s+\d{2}\s+\d{2})