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QUESTION

I'm trying to put together a comprehensive regex to validate phone numbers. Ideally it would handle international formats, but it must handle US formats, including the following:

• 1-234-567-8901
• 1-234-567-8901 x1234
• 1-234-567-8901 ext1234
• 1 (234) 567-8901
• 1.234.567.8901
• 1/234/567/8901
• 12345678901

I'll answer with my current attempt, but I'm hoping somebody has something better and/or more elegant.

ANSWER

Better option... just strip all non-digit characters on input (except 'x').

then, you end up with values like:

 12345678901
 12345678901x1234
 345678901x1234
 12344678901
 12345678901
 12345678901
 12345678901

Then when you display, reformat to your hearts content. e.g.

  1 (234) 567-8901
  1 (234) 567-8901 x1234

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