hi, on looking at the telephone book, Indian landline numbers have three forms
3 digit STD code followed by 8 digits 4 digit STD code followed by 7 digits 5 digit STD code followed by 6 digits the first digit of the STD code has to be 0. The first digit of the landline number starts from 1-6. Of course I am not dead sure of the starting numbers, but I have seen mobile numbers starting with 9 and 8, and I think 7 is also reserved for mobile. I could not find any authorative info on this. This is the re: r'(^0\d{2}[-\s]{1}[1-6]{1}\d{7})|(^0\d{3}[-\s]{1}[1-6]{1}\d{6})|(^0 \d{4}[-\s]{1}[1-6]{1}\d{5})' any clues on how to make it shorter? And any info as to whether my assumptions as to the landline numbers is correct? -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers