Regex to match all us phone number formats
Solution 1:
\(?\d{3}\)?-? *\d{3}-? *-?\d{4}
Solution 2:
public bool IsValidPhone(string Phone)
{
try
{
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(Phone))
return false;
var r = new Regex(@"^\(?([0-9]{3})\)?[-.●]?([0-9]{3})[-.●]?([0-9]{4})$");
return r.IsMatch(Phone);
}
catch (Exception)
{
throw;
}
}
Solution 3:
To extend upon FlyingStreudel's correct answer, I modified it to accept '.' as a delimiter, which was a requirement for me.
\(?\d{3}\)?[-\.]? *\d{3}[-\.]? *[-\.]?\d{4}
in use (finding all phone numbers in a string):
string text = "...the text to search...";
string pattern = @"\(?\d{3}\)?[-\.]? *\d{3}[-\.]? *[-\.]?\d{4}";
Regex regex = new Regex(pattern, RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
Match match = regex.Match(text);
while (match.Success)
{
string phoneNumber = match.Groups[0].Value;
//TODO do something with the phone number
match = match.NextMatch();
}
Solution 4:
Help yourself. Dont use a regex for this. Google release a great library to handle this specific use case: libphonenumber. There is an online demo of the lib.
public static void Main()
{
var phoneUtil = PhoneNumberUtil.GetInstance();
var numberProto = phoneUtil.Parse("(979) 778-0978", "US");
var formattedPhone = phoneUtil.Format(numberProto, PhoneNumberFormat.INTERNATIONAL);
Console.WriteLine(formattedPhone);
}
Demo on .NETFiddle
Solution 5:
To add to all of the above suggestions, here's my RegEx that will enforce NANP standards:
((?:\(?[2-9](?(?=1)1[02-9]|(?(?=0)0[1-9]|\d{2}))\)?\D{0,3})(?:\(?[2-9](?(?=1)1[02-9]|\d{2})\)?\D{0,3})\d{4})
This regular expression enforces NANP Standard rules such as N11 codes are used to provide three-digit dialing access to special services
, and thus excludes them using a conditional capture. It also accounts for up to 3 non-digit characters (\D{0,3}
) in between sections, because I've seen some funky data.
From the provided testing data, here's the Output:
3087774825
(281)388-0388
(281)388-0300
(979) 778-0978
(281)934-2479
(281)934-2447
(979)826-3273
(979)826-3255
(281)356-2530
(281)356-5264
(936)825-2081
(832)595-9500
(832)595-9501
281-342-2452
Note that there were two sample values omitted due to not being valid phone numbers by NANP Standards: Area Code begins with 1
1334714149
1334431660
The rule I am referring to can be found on the National NANPA's website's Area Codes page stating, The format of an area code is NXX, where N is any digit 2 through 9 and X is any digit 0 through 9.