Validating UK phone number (Regex C#)
You may try this regex if you are trying to get it with +44
^(((\+44\s?\d{4}|\(?0\d{4}\)?)\s?\d{3}\s?\d{3})|((\+44\s?\d{3}|\(?0\d{3}\)?)\s?\d{3}\s?\d{4})|((\+44\s?\d{2}|\(?0\d{2}\)?)\s?\d{4}\s?\d{4}))(\s?\#(\d{4}|\d{3}))?$
This will match for
+447222555555 | +44 7222 555 555 | (0722) 5555555 #2222
REGEX DEMO
You can try this regex for UK phone numbers:
/^\(?0( *\d\)?){9,10}$/
This regex will check for 10 or 11 digit numbers which are there in UK numbers, starting with a 0, which may have formatting spaces between any of the digits, and optionally a set of brackets for the area code.
Also in your regex you need to add @ to get rid of that error(Unrecognized escape sequence
):
public static bool ValidatePhoneNumber(string number)
{
return Regex.Match(number, @"^(\+44\s?7\d{3}|\(?07\d{3}\)?)\s?\d{3}\s?\d{3}$", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase).Success;
}
This is a pretty solid regex, will handle area codes, extension numbers and the +44 international code as well as mobile numbers and even 10 digit numbers:
^(?:(?:\(?(?:0(?:0|11)\)?[\s-]?\(?|\+)44\)?[\s-]?(?:\(?0\)?[\s-]?)?)|(?:\(?0))(?:(?:\d{5}\)?[\s-]?\d{4,5})|(?:\d{4}\)?[\s-]?(?:\d{5}|\d{3}[\s-]?\d{3}))|(?:\d{3}\)?[\s-]?\d{3}[\s-]?\d{3,4})|(?:\d{2}\)?[\s-]?\d{4}[\s-]?\d{4}))(?:[\s-]?(?:x|ext\.?|\#)\d{3,4})?$
Try using this:
^(\+44\\s?7\\d{3}|\(?07\\d{3}\)?)\\s?\\d{3}\\s?\\d{3}$
In order for the regex to recognize the \s
, \d
, etc you need to put double slash \\
. If not you'll get an illegal escape character
error.