Javascript Regex - What to use to validate a phone number?

Question

Could anyone tell me what RegEx would work to validate an international phone number including white space between the numbers and also allowing for these chars: - ( )

Answer 1

See A comprehensive regex for phone number validation

Quick cheat sheet

• Start the expression: /^
• If you want to require a space, use: [\s] or \s
• If you want to require parenthesis, use: [(] and [)] . Using \( and \) is ugly and can make things confusing.
• If you want anything to be optional, put a ? after it
• If you want a hyphen, just type - or [-] . If you do not put it first or last in a series of other characters, though, you may need to escape it: \-
• If you want to accept different choices in a slot, put brackets around the options: [-.\s] will require a hyphen, period, or space. A question mark after the last bracket will make all of those optional for that slot.
• \d{3} : Requires a 3-digit number: 000-999. Shorthand for [0-9][0-9][0-9].
• [2-9] : Requires a digit 2-9 for that slot.
• (\+|1\s)? : Accept a "plus" or a 1 and a space (pipe character, |, is "or"), and make it optional. The "plus" sign must be escaped.
• If you want specific numbers to match a slot, enter them: [246] will require a 2, 4, or 6. [77|78] will require 77 or 78.
• $/ : End the expression