Erm, you say regex is overkill, then use one in your example! Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk ----- Reply message ----- From: "Al" <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, Dec 31, 2010 15:53 Subject: [PHP] Re: Regex for telephone numbers To: <php-db@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On 12/29/2010 7:12 PM, Ethan Rosenberg 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)] > Regex is over-kill. $phoneNum = preg_replace("%\D%", '', $phoneNum);//Remove everything except digits $phoneNum = ltrim($phoneNum,'1');//Remove leading 1s if(strlen($phoneValue) != 10) { throw new Exception("Phone number must be 10 digits, without leading a 1. Check your entry carefull"); } -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
