Regular expression for dividing country calling codes
- by RickiG
Hi
I have a list of calling codes for all countries(the phone number prefixes), I would like to split them up in the
country name and the actual code so I can put then into an xml.
I have tried back and forth but can not get a regexp going that takes all cases into account.
I think it is fairly simple for someone with a bit of experience.
The codes have these formats:
Afghanistan 93
Anguilla 1 264
Antarctica 6721
Antigua and Barbuda 1 268
Bosnia and Herzegovina 387
Canada 1
Congo, Republic of the 242
Cote d'Ivoire 225
Ireland (Eire) 353
United States of America 1
There are around 235 of them in total, but these are the regulars and the exceptions.
^[a-zA-Z]\s,'()] for between 1 and X words and then it is [0-9\s]{1,5}$ for the numbers:
X
XX
XXX
XXXX
X XXX
So if I should express it as a sentence it would be: "from beginning of a line, take all characters (1) including space,'() until you encounter digits, then take all of these including space(2) until you encounter a line break."
I am using TextMate, and the docs says:
TextMate uses the Oniguruma regular
expression library by K. Kosako.
I would appreciate any help given:)
Thank you.
