I was wondering if anyone could help me with a script needed to validate a text field in a form for phone number entry. I think I'll need to use a regular expression to accomplish this. I was thinking of using 3 fields one for area code one for prefix and the last for the number. that way I can limit the first two fields to 3 numbers only and then the last to four numbers. then concatinate the fields fot my form input. Ahe right track or overcomplicating things. All help would be greatly appreciated.
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Basically, if you go with the three entry method all you will have to verify is that each field is the correct length and numeric. You could still use a regular expression
jumps to mind) to test for non-numeric characters, and justa plain .length method to doublecheck length.
Then just use the maxlength attribute to limit each text box to 3, 3, and 4.
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Oh, sorry, I thought you had already decided to go with the three fields. If you want to do it in a single field you could do so pretty easily,
There is a regular expression tutorial here ( ) that has as it's final example a telephone number verification. There are also a great deal of regular expressions tutorials for other languages as well that will work similarly in javascript. Also if you go over to the Java forum a friend of mine created a very pretty FAQ on regular expressions in Java.
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There is a regular expression tutorial here ( ) that has as it's final example a telephone number verification. There are also a great deal of regular expressions tutorials for other languages as well that will work similarly in javascript. Also if you go over to the Java forum a friend of mine created a very pretty FAQ on regular expressions in Java.
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