Validating Phone Numbers Using Javascript

Question

I\'m working on a web form with several fields and a submit button. When the button is clicked, I have to verify that the required text boxes have been filled in and that th

Answer 1

As for your regexp I guess it should be

^\+{0,2}([\-\. ])?(\(?\d{0,3}\))?([\-\. ])?\(?\d{0,3}\)?([\-\. ])?\d{3}([\-\. ])?\d{4}

But in general the presumption is not correct because one might enter something like ++44 20 1234 56789 or +44 (0) 1234 567890 it is better to do something like this

var phone = document.forms["myForm"]["phone"].value;
var phoneNum = phone.replace(/[^\d]/g, '');
if(phoneNum.length > 6 && phoneNum.length < 11) {  return true;  }

this will assure that entered value has 7 to 10 figures nevertheless what the formatting is. But you have to think about max length for number might be more than 10 as in the sample above.