Reg exp formatting phone numbers

[johk02]

Hi,
I am trying to write a reg exp to verify that the phone number is entered correctly. I want the phone number to be entered like 99-9999 9999 and the reg exp I have is [0-9]{4}-[0-9]{4}(\s)[0-9]{4}. The problem is that it allows me to enter more than 4 numbers in the last block of numbers like 99-9999 999999999. Another question I have is how do you write an or statement with reg exp?? For example the number combination could be either 99-9999 9999 or 9999-999 999.

Thanks
Jonas

 

[GUJUm0deL]

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[safaritek]

not really, you can do field validations using CFINPUT and regex direct in CF and while somewhat related to the regex in JS, has a few of it's own rules.

the regex validation can be done in the form itself or server side on submission (recommended actually to do both)

 

[FALCONSEYE]

<CFINPUT TYPE="Text" NAME="phone" VALIDATE="regular_expression" PATTERN="^\d{2}-\d{4}\s\d{4}$" MESSAGE="Phone is improperly formatted"> .

this is for 99-9999 9999

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[johk02]

Thank you falconseye. I am actually going to use the exp on my validation page (as well as in the cfinput). I guess that qualifies it to be an coldfusion question

Thanks

Jonas

 

[imstillatwork]

Might it be wiser to strip out any non integers and then count the remianing integers to make sure it is a valid number? I have filled out phone number forms where they validated it down to the () and - and god is it annoying.



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[johk02]

At the moment I count the numbers to verify that they are entering in at least 10 numbers. Some are entering the phone number 99-99999999 or 99-9999 9999.When they are outputted later on we have an inconsistency how the phone numbers are displayed. I just want to ensure that when they are outputted that they all look the same.

Jonas

 

[imstillatwork]

so you need to format the numbers to look consistant, rather than force the user to type the number how you want? that would be much nicer I think.

Kevin

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[safaritek]

if you just want consistency, you could also try using the mask attribute