in reply to phone number regex (new question)

die "or whatever" if /[^0-9()\- .]/;

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Update: Escaped the hyphen. Thanks, revdiablo.
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Re: Re: phone number regex (new question)
by revdiablo (Prior) on Mar 11, 2004 at 23:12 UTC

    I'd be careful with a character class like that. I haven't tested it, but the ')-' part might try to create a range starting at ')' and ending at ''. This is obviously not what was intended. Just to be safe, I'd be sure to put the '-' at the end of the character class.

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