example of a regular expression in jquery for phone numbers

Question

I'm very new to javascript, I just want a reqular expression for validating phone numbers for one of my text field.

I can accept -+ () 0-9 from users, do you have regex for this one or a regex for phone numbers better then the one i need?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Use this rexeg

/\(?([0-9]{3})\)?([ .-]?)([0-9]{3})\2([0-9]{4})/

• (123) 456 7899
• (123).456.7899
• (123)-456-7899
• 123-456-7899
• 123 456 7899
• 1234567899

supported

Answer 2

Try this

function validatePhone(phoneNumber){
   var phoneNumberPattern = /^\(?(\d{3})\)?[- ]?(\d{3})[- ]?(\d{4})$/;  
   return phoneNumberPattern.test(phoneNumber); 
}