Programmatically Validating US and Canada Phone Numbers Using Regular Expressions In Java

The following java program checks for the validity of US and Canada phone number formats using regular expression. The regular expression used here can handle the following rules:

• The starting character may be ‘+’ but is optional
• If the country code is used, it can be either 0 or 1 and is optional
• Various codes (country, area) might be separated with ‘-’ or ‘.’ but is optional
• Area code should not start with 0 but may be optionally enclosed in round brackets

package com.kushal.tools;
/**
 * @author Kushal Paudyal
 * Last Modified on 05/11/2011
 * Java Regular Expression to Validate US and Canada phone numbers.
 */
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

public class RegexUSAndCandaPhoneNumberValidator{
	/**
	 * REGEX IS: ^[+]?[01]?[- .]?(\([2-9]\d{2}\)|[2-9]\d{2})[- .]?\d{3}[- .]?\d{4}$
	 * Escape Sequences are added in the following String for back slash (\)
	 */
	static String phoneValidationUSCandaRegex =
		"^[+]?[01]?[- .]?(\\([2-9]\\d{2}\\)|[2-9]\\d{2})[- .]?\\d{3}[- .]?\\d{4}$";

	/**
	 * This method compares the parameter string against the US Phone number
	 * regex and returns true if the pattern is matched - meaning the phone
	 * number is valid.
	 *
	 * The regular expression used here can handle the following rules:
	 * The starting character may be '+' but is optional
	 * If the country code is used, it can be either 0 or 1 and is optional
	 * Various codes (country, area) might be separated with '-' or '.' but is optional
	 * Area code should not start with 0 but may be optionally enclosed in round brackets
	 *
	 */
	public static boolean isAValidUSPhoneNumber(String str) {
		return Pattern.matches(phoneValidationUSCandaRegex, str);

	}

	public static void main (String [] args ) {
		String [] phoneNumbersToValidate={"2-309-778-4234",
										  "1-309-778-4423",
										  "309-778-4235",
										  "3097784234",
										  "309.778.4234",
										  "01-309-798-4234",
										  "001-309-798-4234",
										  "0-309-798-4234",
										  "+1-309-798-4235",
										  "1-3097980577",
										  "1-309.7980578",
										  "1-(309)-788-8978"};

		for(int index=0;index<phoneNumbersToValidate.length;index++) {
			String number=phoneNumbersToValidate[index];
			boolean isValid=isAValidUSPhoneNumber(phoneNumbersToValidate[index]);
			System.out.println(number+" : "+(isValid?"Valid":"Invalid"));
		}
	}
}

Originally posted 2011-05-17 20:34:21.