I want to catch the phone number from a text using regex.
Examples:
I have this regex which finds the phone number very well:
^((\(?\+45\)?)?)(\s?\d{2}\s?\d{2}\s?\d{2}\s?\d{2})$
and it catches all the numbers below well.
But I cannot catch the "tel.", "tlf", "mobil:", etc that could be before the number. And also, if another letter comes after the last digit, it doesn't take number anymore, but it should.
These examples are not covered:
tel.: +45 09827374, +45 89895867, some kind of text...
mobil: +45 20802020, +45 20802001,
tlf.: +45 5555 1212
tlf: +4567890202Girrafe
If helpful, I found this regex:
'\btlf\b\D*([\d\s]+\d)' which can extract the number and the tlf and also stop before it finds a new character which is represented by a letter.
So I tried to combine them and I obtained this but it doesn't work:
\b(tlf|mobil|telephone|mobile|tel)\b\D*(^((\(?\+45\)?)?)(\s?\d{2}\s?\d{2}\s?\d{2}\s?\d{2})$)
Expected output:
"tel.: +45 09827374, +45 89895867, some kind of text..." --> output: "tel.: +45 09827374" and "+45 89895867""mobil: +45 20802020, +45 20802001," --> output: "mobil: +45 20802020" and "+45 20802001" or "mobil: +45 20802020, +45 20802001" is ok too"tlf +45 5555 1212" --> output: "tlf +45 5555 1212""tlf: +4567890202Girrafe" --> output: "tlf: +4567890202""+4567890202" --> output: "+4567890202"Can you help me please?
If you want the full match only:
(?:\b(?:tlf|mobile?|tel(?:ephone)?)[.:\s]+)?(?:\(\+45\)|\+45)?\s*\d{2}(?:\s?\d{2}){3}(?!\d)
The pattern matches:
(?: Non capture group
\b A word boundary to prevent a partial word match(?:tlf|mobile?|tel(?:ephone)?) match one of the alternatives[.:\s]+ match 1+ occurrences of either . : or a whitespace char)? Close the on capture group and make it optional(?:\(\+45\)|\+45)? Optionally match either +45 or (+45)\s*\d{2}(?:\s?\d{2}){3} Match 3 times 2 digits with an optional whitespace char in between(?!\d) Negative lookahead, assert not a digit directly to the rightSee a regex demo