On Dec 29, 2010, at 7:12 PM, Ethan Rosenberg <ethros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dear List - > > Thank you for all your help in the past. > > Here is another one.... > > I would like to have a regex which would validate that a telephone number is in the format xxx-xxx-xxxx. > > Thanks. > > Ethan > > MySQL 5.1 PHP 5 Linux [Debian (sid)] > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > You can't, phone numbers are more complex then that. You could use \d{3}-\d{3}-\d{4} to match that basic pattern for all numbers though. Regards, -Josh ___________________________ http://joshuakehn.com Sent from my iPod -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php