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

Having seem simply too many edge cases, I went for a simpler check:

^(([0-9\ \+\_\-\,\.\^\*\?\$\^\#\(\)])|(ext|x)){1,20}$

The first thing one may point out is allowing repetition of "ext", but the purpose of this regex is to prevent users from accidentally entering email ids etc. instead of phone numbers, which it does.