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Talk:Core JavaScript 1.5 Guide:Working with Regular Expressions:Examples of Regular Expressions

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This example doesn't seem to work!

The Change event activated when the user presses Enter sets the value of RegExp.input. 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
  <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Script-Type" content="text/javascript">
    <script type="text/javascript">
      var re = /\(?\d{3}\)?([-\/\.])\d{3}\1\d{4}/;

      function testInfo(phoneInput)
      {
        var OK = re.exec(phoneInput.value);

        if (!OK)
        {
          window.alert(RegExp.input + " isn't a phone number with area code!");
        }
        else
        {
          window.alert("Thanks, your phone number is " + OK[0]);
        }
      }
    </script>
  </head>

  <body>
    <p>Enter your phone number (with area code) and then press Enter.</p>
    <form action="">
      <input name="phone" onchange="testInfo(this);">
    </form>
  </body>
</html>

--Jomel 19:07, 26 October 2006 (PDT)

Well, it works with (123)-456-78. I agree we could do with a better example. --Nickolay 23:28, 26 October 2006 (PDT)
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