Complex RegEx with uBot?

[BeerNut 25]

I have been using simple regex with uBot for awhile now, but mostly ones I have made my self. Now I need a complex regex that will match phone numbers of various types.

 

I have found this RegEx below online. It works with EditPad, Rubular.com, and a few other regex checking programs I have. What it does not do is work with uBot Studio 4.0.

^(??:\+?1\s*(?:[.-]\s*)?)?(?:\(\s*([2-9]1[02-9]|[2-9][02-8]1|[2-9][02-8][02-9])\s*\)|([2-9]1[02-9]|[2-9][02-8]1|[2-9][02-8][02-9]))\s*(?:[.-]\s*)?)?([2-9]1[02-9]|[2-9][02-9]1|[2-9][02-9]{2})\s*(?:[.-]\s*)?([0-9]{4})(?:\s*(?:#|x\.?|ext\.?|extension)\s*(\d+))?$

It should match these phone numbers.

 

1-234-567-8901

1-234-567-8901 x1234

1-234-567-8901 ext1234

1 (234) 567-8901

1.234.567.8901

12345678901

 

I take it that I can not just find RegEx's online and plug and play them into uBot?

[UBotDev 276]

The problem is that regex you've found is used for input validation, that's why it has trailing ^ and ending $ and it doesn't work for your case.

 

If you remove those 2 characters the regex will work for scraping as you want.

[HelloInsomnia 1103]

Try this:

(??:\+?1\s*(?:[.-]\s*)?)?(?:\(\s*([2-9]1[02-9]|[2-9][02-8]1|[2-9][02-8][02-9])\s*\)|([2-9]1[02-9]|[2-9][02-8]1|[2-9][02-8][02-9]))\s*(?:[.-]\s*)?)?([2-9]1[02-9]|[2-9][02-9]1|[2-9][02-9]{2,2})\s*(?:[.-]\s*)?([0-9]{4,4})(?:\s*(?:#|x\.?|ext\.?|extension)\s*(\d+))?

Note: I removed the starting and ending line because you probably don't want that - but if you do the just add in the first character and last character again.

[HelloInsomnia 1103]

The problem is that regex you've found is used for input validation, that's why it has trailing ^ and ending $ and it doesn't work for your case.

 

If you remove those 2 characters the regex will work for scraping as you want.

 

Not just that but the fact that with Ubot you can't do {2} you have to do it like {2,2}

[UBotDev 276]

Not just that but the fact that with Ubot you can't do {2} you have to do it like {2,2}

Right, nice catch...

[giganut 109]

Not just that but the fact that with Ubot you can't do {2} you have to do it like {2,2}

 

 

Thank you sir! that was driving me crazy today.