Jquery/JS : How to detect a telephone number or email within a string?

Hi Experts,

I am grabbing the value of a textarea on blur and want to see whether it has an email address (xxxx@xxx.xxx) and/or a telephone number (0123456780 or 01234 567890)

Any help would be really well received
Thanks

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maccaj51

8/22/2022 - Mon

Scott Fell

9/29/2016

How much validation do you need? Can you just look to see if there is an @ sign for instance and if that is the case, call it an email else call it a phone number? Or do you need more detailed algo for email and phone as in it could be neither (ie 5 digit number).

The simple example may be

var string = "somebody@example.com";
var isEmail = string.includes("@");
if(isEmail){
  alert("email");
// treat as email
} else {
  alert("phone");
 // treat as phone
}

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You may want to do additional validation though.

maccaj51

9/29/2016

ASKER

Hi There,

Thanks for answering so quick. I need to detect if both are present - not either or.

I've found this for emails which seems half decent as a starting point

function extractEmails (text)
{
    return text.match(/([a-zA-Z0-9._-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9._-]+\.[a-zA-Z0-9._-]+)/gi);
}

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Scott Fell

9/29/2016

There is one text field to test, right?

http://jsbin.com/nukaterugi/edit?html,output

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width">
  <title>JS Bin</title>
</head>
<body>
  <input id="test" placeholder="start here">
  <input placeholder="tab to here">
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.0.0.js"></script>
  <script>
    $(function(){
  $('#test').on('blur',function(){
     var testValue = $('#test').val();
    
     alert(detect(testValue));
  });
});

function detect(str){
  if(str.includes("@")){
    return "email";
  } else {
    return "phone";
  }
}


  </script>

</body>
</html>

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I am not well versed in regular expressions but you can play with that as well. The logic will still be similar. There are going to be multiple ways to get to the same thing here.

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Scott Fell

9/29/2016

I'm sorry, I didn't read your question correctly. You are saying there could be both and you need to extract both if available.

maccaj51

9/29/2016

ASKER

Yes - correct

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Scott Fell

9/29/2016