What regular expression will match valid internati

Question

I need to determine whether a phone number is valid before attempting to dial it. The phone call can go anywhere in the world.

What regular expression will match valid international phone numbers?

Answer 1

For iOS SWIFT I found this helpful,

let phoneRegEx = "^((\\+)|(00)|(\\*)|())[0-9]{3,14}((\\#)|())$"

Answer 2

Try the following API for phone number validation. Also this will return the Country, Area and Provider

demo https://libphonenumber.appspot.com/

git https://github.com/googlei18n/libphonenumber/releases/tag/v8.9.0

Answer 3

Modified @Eric's regular expression - added a list of all country codes (got them from xxxdepy @ Github. I hope you will find it helpful:

/(\+|00)(297|93|244|1264|358|355|376|971|54|374|1684|1268|61|43|994|257|32|229|226|880|359|973|1242|387|590|375|501|1441|591|55|1246|673|975|267|236|1|61|41|56|86|225|237|243|242|682|57|269|238|506|53|5999|61|1345|357|420|49|253|1767|45|1809|1829|1849|213|593|20|291|212|34|372|251|358|679|500|33|298|691|241|44|995|44|233|350|224|590|220|245|240|30|1473|299|502|594|1671|592|852|504|385|509|36|62|44|91|246|353|98|964|354|972|39|1876|44|962|81|76|77|254|996|855|686|1869|82|383|965|856|961|231|218|1758|423|94|266|370|352|371|853|590|212|377|373|261|960|52|692|389|223|356|95|382|976|1670|258|222|1664|596|230|265|60|262|264|687|227|672|234|505|683|31|47|977|674|64|968|92|507|64|51|63|680|675|48|1787|1939|850|351|595|970|689|974|262|40|7|250|966|249|221|65|500|4779|677|232|503|378|252|508|381|211|239|597|421|386|46|268|1721|248|963|1649|235|228|66|992|690|993|670|676|1868|216|90|688|886|255|256|380|598|1|998|3906698|379|1784|58|1284|1340|84|678|681|685|967|27|260|263)(9[976]\d|8[987530]\d|6[987]\d|5[90]\d|42\d|3[875]\d|2[98654321]\d|9[8543210]|8[6421]|6[6543210]|5[87654321]|4[987654310]|3[9643210]|2[70]|7|1)\d{4,20}$/

Answer 4

This works for me, without 00, 001, 0011 etc prefix though:

/^\+*(\d{3})*[0-9,\-]{8,}/

Answer 5

You can use the library libphonenumber from Google.

PhoneNumberUtil phoneNumberUtil = PhoneNumberUtil.getInstance();
String decodedNumber = null;
PhoneNumber number;
    try {
        number = phoneNumberUtil.parse(encodedHeader, null);
        decodedNumber = phoneNumberUtil.format(number, PhoneNumberFormat.E164);
    } catch (NumberParseException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

Answer 6

There's obviously a multitude of ways to do this, as evidenced by all of the different answers given thus far, but I'll throw my $0.02 worth in here and provide the regex below, which is a bit more terse than nearly all of the above, but more thorough than most as well. It also has the nice side-effect of leaving the country code in $1 and the local number in $2.

^\+(?=\d{5,15}$)(1|2[078]|3[0-469]|4[013-9]|5[1-8]|6[0-6]|7|8[1-469]|9[0-58]|[2-9]..)(\d+)$