RE: Mobile phone numbers

[Priscilla Walmsley <priscilla@walmsley.com>]

Close, but there are a couple problems:

- You should use parentheses instead of angle brackets
- The + needs to be escaped
- I'm assuming it's the group "04" that's optional, not just the "4".  So
you have to put the 04 in parentheses.  Likewise for the +614.
- There seem to be 8 digits after the +614 number, not 7.

Try this:
((04)?[0-9]{8}) | ((\+614)?[0-9]{8})

I think that should work.

Priscilla

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Priscilla Walmsley                   priscilla@walmsley.com
Architect, Vitria Technology          http://www.vitria.com
Author, Definitive XML Schema  (Prentice Hall, Dec. 2001)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: topper harley [mailto:bicepmaximus@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 1:40 AM
> To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: Mobile phone numbers
>
>
> Hi,
> 	i wanted to write a pattern value string that reads in
> a mobile phone
> number of the pattern 0412867576 or +61412867576 only.  At
> the moment i am
> using this check
>
> <xsd:simpleType name="Mobile">
>   <xsd:restriction base="xsd:string">
>     <xsd:pattern value="<04?[0-9]{8}> | <+614?[0-9]{7}>"/>
>   </xsd:restriction>
> </xsd:simpleType>
>
> is this correct or any help would be great!
>
> Topper
>
>
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