Javascript Regular Expression for International Phone Number

Question

The following regular expression isn\'t working for international phone numbers that can allow up to 15 digits:

^[a-zA-Z0-9-().\\s]{10,15}$

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Answer 1

Try adding a backslash:

var unrealisticPhoneNumberRegex = /^[a-zA-Z0-9\-().\s]{10,15}$/;

Now it's still not very useful because you allow an arbitrary number of punctuation characters too. Really, validating a phone number like this — especially if you want it to really work for all possible international phone numbers — is probably a hopeless task. I suggest you go with what @BalusC suggests.