Re: Looking for types: phone number, email addresses

On Fri, 2002-07-19 at 15:07, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> OK, let's check:
>
> CHECK (phone ~ '^\\+[0-9]+[ 0-9]+$')
>
> which is, I believe, international (although the above regexp does not
> prevent strange things like two consecutive spaces).

That would match "+0 ", which is probably not a valid number.  You can
combine several patterns as alternatives in the CHECK constraint or even
put alternatives in the pattern.
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