[RESOLVED] Help please with Regular Expressions

[realnsleo]

I am trying to extract phone numbers from a string in php using the

preg_match_all()

function. I know that this pattern

'!\d+!'

extracts all numbers. But i need it to do more. The numbers i want to extract either start with 256 followed by 9 numbers or 078,077,071,079 followed by 8 numbers. Thank you.

[Derokorian]

if( preg_match_all('/(256(\d{9})|07(1|7|8|9)(\d{8}))/',$string,$matches) ) {
   echo 'Matches found!<br><pre>';
   var_dump($matches);
   echo '</pre>';
} else {
   echo 'No matches found!';
}

See if that does what you're looking for?

[realnsleo]

Derokorian;11003322 wrote:

if( preg_match_all('/(256(\d{9})|07(1|7|8|9)(\d{8}))/',$string,$matches) ) {
   echo 'Matches found!<br><pre>';
   var_dump($matches);
   echo '</pre>';
} else {
   echo 'No matches found!';
}

See if that does what you're looking for?

Thanks for the reply Derokorian!!!!
I have used your pattern but i receive this error:

"Compilation failed: missing ) at offset 32"

Could there be anything missing? Thanks again for the reply!

[Derokorian]

I think there must have been a copy paste error, because this is the code I used exactly:

<?php

$string = <<<END
Hello my number is 07812345678 my friends number is 07787654321
Your number is 256987654321 and your friends number is 256123456789
END;

if( preg_match_all('/(256(\d{9})|07(1|7|8|9)(\d{8}))/',$string,$matches) ) { 
   echo 'Matches found!<br><pre>'; 
   var_dump($matches); 
   echo '</pre>'; 
} else { 
   echo 'No matches found!'; 
} 

And this is the output (only first offset (full numbers) not all offsets because it includes subpatterns that don't matter!

Matches found!
array
  0 => 
    array
      0 => string '07812345678' (length=11)
      1 => string '07787654321' (length=11)
      2 => string '256987654321' (length=12)
      3 => string '256123456789' (length=12)

[realnsleo]

Derokorian;11003326 wrote:

I think there must have been a copy paste error, because this is the code I used exactly:

<?php

$string = <<<END
Hello my number is 07812345678 my friends number is 07787654321
Your number is 256987654321 and your friends number is 256123456789
END;

if( preg_match_all('/(256(\d{9})|07(1|7|8|9)(\d{8}))/',$string,$matches) ) { 
   echo 'Matches found!<br><pre>'; 
   var_dump($matches); 
   echo '</pre>'; 
} else { 
   echo 'No matches found!'; 
} 

And this is the output (only first offset (full numbers) not all offsets because it includes subpatterns that don't matter!

Matches found!
array
  0 => 
    array
      0 => string '07812345678' (length=11)
      1 => string '07787654321' (length=11)
      2 => string '256987654321' (length=12)
      3 => string '256123456789' (length=12)

Perfect implementation. Thanks ALOT sir Derokorian. You rock!!

[Derokorian]

No problemo!