regular expression for bulgarian mobile phone numbers

Question

Hello I should think of this regular expression:

The telephone number should begin with 087 OR 088 OR 089 and then it should be followed by7 digits: This is what I made but it doesn't work correctly: it accepts only numbers which begin with 089

(087)|(088)|(089)[0-9]{7}";

Answer 1

Maybe /08[7-9][0-9]{7}/ is what you're searching for?

Autopsy:

• 08 - a literal 08
• [7-9] - matches the numbers from 7-9 once
• [0-9]{7} - matches the numbers from 0-9 repeated exactly 7 times

That said, you might prefer /^08[7-9][0-9]{7}$/ if your string is only the phone number. (^ means "the string MUST start here" and $ means "the string MUST end here").

Answer 2

/08[789]\d{7}/

that will match 087xxxxxxx, 088xxxxxxx, 089xxxxxxx numbers.

See it in action

Answer 3

Actually that will be far better regex for Bulgarian phone numbers:

/(\+)?(359|0)8[789]\d{1}(|-| )\d{3}(|-| )\d{3}/

It checks:

1. Phones that start with country code(+359) or 0 instead;
2. if the phone number use delimiters like - or space.

Answer 4

I tried it in https://regex101.com and it did not work against my test set. So I tweaked it a little bit with the below regex pattern:

^([+]?359)|0?(|-| )8[789]\d{1}(|-| )\d{3}(|-| )\d{3}$