Regular Expressions for Common Tasks
Published by Sara Jacobson
Jun 20, 2008 04:48 PM
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Another installment in the I’ve got just the thing here….somewhere series.
U.S. Postal code
/^$|^(\d{5}(( |-)\d{4})?)/
Telephone
/^(0|1)?[\s|\.|\-]?[\(]?(\d{3})[\)]?[\s|\.|\-]?(\d{3})[\s|\.|\-]?(\d{4})[\s|\.|\-]?(extension|ext|ex|x)?[\s]?(\d{0,5})?$/
Fax
/^$|^(0|1)?[\s|\.|\-]?[\(]?(\d{3})[\)]?[\s|\.|\-]?(\d{3})[\s|\.|\-]?(\d{4})$/
