IE6 regular expression bug?

[ajliles]

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to use regular expressions in javascript to validate an international phone number, and I can't get the regular expression to test for +.
The pattern I'm using is:
/^(\+)\d{1,3} [\d ]+\d$/
I think this is a bug because if I use the following pattern, it accepts $nnn nnn nnnnn:
/^(\$)\d{1,3} [\d ]+\d$/
So it seems there's a problem escaping the + character - I'ev also tried using hex values, ie \x2b which also doesn't work.

Anyone had similar problems? Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks.
Adrian.

aliles@arrowuk.com

 

[xutopia]

Try this :

// | i18n code | area code | city number | optional extension
var telephoneNumber = /^(\+\d{1,3}[ -\.]?)?(\(\d{1,5}\)|\d{1,5})[ -\.]?\d{2,4}[ -\.]?\d{0,7}( ?e?xt ?\d{1,5})?/i;

I hope this helps. Gary

http://www.xutopia.com

Haran

 

[ajliles]

Thanks for the reply, but still no luck!

Using your pattern I can enter the following and it works fine:

(11) 11 11 ext 11

but when I try the following it fails:

+11 (11) 11 11 ext 11

So for some reason I have a problem when the user tries entering the + sign. Escaping with \+ doesn't allow me to enter +, but escaping with \$ does allow me to enter $.

Weird eh? I'm using IE6 and believe this must be a bug, but can't find anything in MSDN/Knowledge base, and it's driving me crazy!

Adrian.

 

[xutopia]

by golly gee! You are right that doesn't make sense. Gary

http://www.xutopia.com

Haran

 

[ajliles]

Just tried this on IE5 and it doesn't work :-(

Adrian

 

[ajliles]

I've now got it working - I found out that certain characters were being stripped (in a function called from a parent frame) before getting to my validation function