Hi Monks,
I am trying to check for phone number input using the regular expression below, but I can't understand why it isn't matching, any help or suggestions in how I could improve my code to check phone number format like:
(555) 324-1233
555 - 324-1234
1 555 342-1234

It may or may not have spaces in between or dashes as well but looking at the regular expression that I have it should be very flexible in matching phone members.
Thanks for the help!
$phone_number = "(555) 324-1233";

if ($phone_number =~/^[(]?(d{0,3})[)]?[s]?[-]?(d{3})[s]?[-]?(d{4})[s]?
+[x]?(d*)$/){
#if ($phone_number =~/^(\D*\d{3}?)(\D*\d{3}?)(\D*\d{4}?)(\D*$)/){

    #// we have a match, dump sub-patterns to $matches
    $phone = $1; #// original number
    $area_code = $2;    #// 3-digit area code
    $exchange = $3;     #// 3-digit exchange
    $number = $4;       #// 4-digit number
    $extension = $5;    #// extension
    
    print "**** $phone ** $area_code ** $exchange ** $number ** $exten
+sion ***** ";
    
}else{print "no match";}

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