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Phone Number Regex — free online tester

Match US / Canada phone numbers in every common written format — with or without country code.

The pattern

/\+?1?[\s.-]?\(?\d{3}\)?[\s.-]?\d{3}[\s.-]?\d{4}/g

How it works

Phone numbers are written so many different ways: (555) 123-4567, 555-123-4567, 555.123.4567, 5551234567, +1 (555) 123-4567. This pattern accepts all of them: an optional country code, an optional parenthesised area code, and three groups of digits separated by spaces, dashes, dots, or nothing.

When to use it

▸Extract phone numbers from CSV / spreadsheet imports
▸Find contact numbers in scraped pages
▸Validate North-American phone form fields
▸Clean up customer-support tickets

Tip

For international numbers, replace the 3-3-4 digit pattern with a more permissive `\d[\d\s().-]{6,20}\d` and post-validate with libphonenumber.

Try it on this input

Reach us at (555) 123-4567 during business hours.
Sales: 555-123-4567
Support: 555.123.4567
Direct: 5551234567
With country code: +1 555 123 4567 or +1-555-123-4567
Not a phone: 123, 12-34, abc, random text

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What this pattern doesn't catch

⚠Matches only North American (NANP) numbers — doesn't accept other country codes
⚠Doesn't validate that the area code or prefix is actually assigned
⚠Will match phone-like substrings inside longer numbers (e.g. credit cards) — anchor with \b for stricter use

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