Regular Expressions 101

Pro

^start of line

Positive Lookahead(?=(?:[+ -]*[0-9][+ -]*){11,12}$)

Non-Capturing Group(?:[+ -]*[0-9][+ -]*){11,12}

{11,12}repeats the group contents below between 11 and 12 times:

Character Class[+ -]*

*matches any number of characters from the set below:

+the literal + (43₁₀ / 53₈ / 2B₁₆)

the literal (32₁₀ / 40₈ / 20₁₆)

-the literal - (45₁₀ / 55₈ / 2D₁₆)

Character Class[0-9]

0-9one character from 0 (48₁₀) to 9 (57₁₀)

Character Class[+ -]*

*matches any number of characters from the set below:

+the literal + (43₁₀ / 53₈ / 2B₁₆)

the literal (32₁₀ / 40₈ / 20₁₆)

-the literal - (45₁₀ / 55₈ / 2D₁₆)

$end of line

\+the literal + (43₁₀ / 53₈ / 2B₁₆)

Non-Capturing Group(?:[0-9]+[ -]?)+

+repeats the group contents below at least once:

Character Class[0-9]+

+matches at least one character from the set below:

0-9one character from 0 (48₁₀) to 9 (57₁₀)

Character Class[ -]?

?matches at most one character from the set below:

the literal (32₁₀ / 40₈ / 20₁₆)

-the literal - (45₁₀ / 55₈ / 2D₁₆)

Character Class[0-9]

0-9one character from 0 (48₁₀) to 9 (57₁₀)

$end of line

Global pattern flags

m modifier: multiline. Causes ^ and $ to match the start and end of each line, not only the start and end of the string

g modifier: global. Finds all matches instead of stopping after the first

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25 tokens

Regular Expression

^(?=(?:[+ -]*[0-9][+ -]*){11,12}$)\+(?:[0-9]+[ -]?)+[0-9]$

New

+212 659-123456
+96274567123
+967773-123-123
+212 627-024321
+212689-881234
+1234567788
+123455678-9
+1234516188891
+33
+33--333333333
+33  333333333
+966 54 666 437377777677777781818

Extraction

+212 659-123456
+96274567123
+967773-123-123
+212 627-024321
+212689-881234
+1234567788
+123455678-9
+1234516188891
+33
+33--333333333
+33  333333333
+966 54 666 437377777677777781818