Regex for phone number (E.164)

Note

E.164 is a + then up to 15 digits with no spaces, the format to store numbers in.

Matches in the example

• "+14155552671"
• "+442071838750"
• "+819012345678"

Token by token

1. \+ the character “+”
2. [1-9] one of: “1” to “9”
3. \d{6,14} a digit (0–9), between 6 and 14 times, as many as possible
4. \b a word boundary

Other patterns

• Email address
• URL
• IPv4 address
• UUID
• Hex color
• Date (YYYY-MM-DD)
• Time (24-hour)
• US phone number
• Phone number (E.164)
• US ZIP code
• Credit card number
• URL slug
• Username
• Strong password
• HTML tag
• Semantic version
• MAC address
• JSON Web Token
• Hashtag
• @mention
• Number
• Leading and trailing whitespace
• Repeated word
• Blank lines
• Markdown link
• Quoted string
• Domain name
• File extension
• Base64
• Trailing comma