Regex Formatting

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February 7, 2018
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I have a Regex validation expression to validate phone numbers. 2 questions:

1. Can I add the substitution code to format the results? For example Phone number validation ^\$?([0-9]{3})\$?[-.●]?([0-9]{3})[-.●]?([0-9]{4})$

want to add replace ($1) $2-$3 to format the validated numbers.

2. Would the field be text or number?

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Best answer by Community Expert

The field would be a text field and the text type under Validation would be Custom not Text or Number. Test your expression out within any Regex library.

But as far as I can test myself, DocuSign does NOT suppot change and replace within a Regex expression. Let me know if you're able to get it to work.

Hope this helps.

C

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Hi,

Welcome back to the DocuSign Support Community!

If you go to https://regexr.com/, you'll be able to determine what would be best to use. The answer to the 2nd question would be a text field with the validation is numbers.If you have further questions, please let us know. Thank you.

Donna DocuSign Support Community Moderator

C

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I'm sorry I wasn't clear. Does DocuSign support replace to change format after passing validation?

C

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The field would be a text field and the text type under Validation would be Custom not Text or Number. Test your expression out within any Regex library.

But as far as I can test myself, DocuSign does NOT suppot change and replace within a Regex expression. Let me know if you're able to get it to work.

Hope this helps.

D

DaveOz

Conversation Starter

The following expression passes the test at https://regexr.com/ for a North American telephone number:

^(\+\d{1,2}\s?)?$?\d{3}$?[\s.-]?\d{3}[\s.-]?\d{4}$

However, my docusign text field with custom validation does nothing and is allowing any format.

-David

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