Unable to match the required phone number format

Question

I am trying to match a phone number format using preg_match in PHP but I am unable to achieve success.

Phone number format that I am trying to match is:

+92XXXXXXXXXX

First three characters should be +92 and the rest of the remaining should have a count of 10 and should be numbers from 0 to 9. Here it is what I am trying but unable to match:

preg_match('/^[+92]{3}[0-9]{10}$/',$phone_number) )

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

Answer 1

You can try using:

^(\+92\d{10})$

The problem in ^[+92]{3}[0-9]{10}$ is in [+92]. What you are doing is saying match either of +,9,2 three times. Therefore that include cases like +++, 999, 299, 29+ and many more.

To correct you pattern, change [+92]{3} to \+92. Therefore it would be:

^\+92[0-9]{10}$

Answer 2

Your pattern works, bot not for literal +92XXXXXXXXXX - with digits in place of X it works. However if it always begins with +92, change the pattern to:

^\+92[0-9]{10}$

https://regex101.com/r/nG6wI1/1