On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai <
abpil...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <law...@au-kbc.org
> >wrote:
>
> > 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})'
> >
>
> It is doable, but you should really use pyparsing for this - this is UGLY !
> :)
> Meanwhile, let me hack on it.
>

Regex is ugly. I guess Kenneth being django guy wants to use the RegexField
in django forms

>
> >
> > 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
> >
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>
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