Tim Sneath

Thanks for the link Tim. Just a couple of days ago I put together my own regular expression pattern for entering times and was wondering if there was anything I missed. The RegEx Library site had a few variations and showed that I wasn't that far off.

Tim,

The nice thing about RegExLib is you can submit regex patterns. Perhaps you could take an existing pattern and modify it appropriately for submission.

Thanks Tim, this stuff is really usful.

Dropped by to see if there was a good regex here.

I am building a validating form,
it won't validate numbers but will reformat them.

The only validation that will take place is its length (if shorter than 10 digits) and funny symbols other than -,+,(,)

Building a regex will be hard (although ideal).
So I am trying to just go about removing all non-digits and spaces (ie ending up with 02087805441) and then reformating via the following rules:

Mobiles:
If starts with 07 then format as xxxxx xxxxxx ie [5,6]

(Specific towns)

Bolton:
If starts with 01204 then format as xxxxx xxxxx [5,5]
Sedbergh:
If starts with 015396 then format as xxxxxx xxxxx [6,5]
Brampton:
If starts with 016977 then format as xxxxxx xxxx [6,4]

Large Cities:
If starts with 01 then format as xxxx xxx xxxx
[4,3,4]
London and Corporates:
If starts with 02 or 05 then format as xxx xxxx xxxx
[3,4,4]

The formula above wouldn't consider many other types such as freephone numbers and other services.
All rules are mutually exclusive.
If nothing matches then leave number unformatted.

The formulas I've grabbed from here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_telephone_numbering_plan

Warning I haven't tested thoroughly and there may be mistakes. But am just sharing my thoughts if I may :)

Few mistakes on the formula above (don't use it!).
But I can't edit now.
I will keep trying ..