3 asked me to make a video with my thoughts on using Skype with their handsets. I am a big supporter of anything that gives me free phone calls! You can see the video on the 3 Bebo page.
A regular expression to match UK residential telephone numbers. It understands the difference between 02 and 01 numbers. It will accept all common formats and internationally formatted numbers.
Examples of accepted numbers:
Examples of numbers that will not be accepted:
This is my first submission to the excellent regexlib.com regular expression library – I’d appreciate if you could vote for it!
/^(((44))( )?|((+44))( )?|(+44)( )?|(44)( )?)?((0)|((0)))?( )?(((1[0-9]{3})|(7[1-9]{1}[0-9]{2})|(20)( )?[7-8]{1})( )?([0-9]{3}[ -]?[0-9]{3})|(2[0-9]{2}( )?[0-9]{3}[ -]?[0-9]{4}))$/
Let me know if I’ve missed anything!
Update: This has been amended as per comments below, to allow 020 as a prefix for London, 07624 (Isle of Man) and 074xx xxxxxx.
Amber Mac recently asked on Twitter if anyone had experience with Nicecast. I chimed in, and she asked if she could quote me in an article she was writing. I was only too happy to oblige, and here is the result.
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