Format Phone Numbers

Pliachas Paschalis

Any example of how to format phone numbers?

allan

Is this in Editor (per the forum category you've posted this in) or in the DataTable?

Allan

Pliachas Paschalis

It could be both!
I made up this:

 { data: "Phone", render: function ( toFormat ) {
    return toFormat.toString().replace(
      /(\d\d\d)(\d\d\d)(\d\d\d\d)/g, '$1-$2-$3'
    ); }}

should it be better to put a validator in such fields (FAX-mobile - Phone numbers) to count the numbers the user enters? For example 10 maximum?

Pliachas Paschalis

and this:

{ data: "FAX" ,render: function ( toFormat ) {
                var tPhone;
                tPhone=toFormat.toString();             
                tPhone='(' + tPhone.substring(0,3) + ')' + tPhone.substring(3,6) + '-' + tPhone.substring(6,10);    
                return tPhone }
            }

allan

I would certainly put a validator on it (all data should really have a validator).

Your format assumes a US style telephone number. If that is valid for what you need then what you have is fine. You might also want to take a look at the Mask plug-in for Editor.

Allan

Pliachas Paschalis

Thank you

Dirk Fincley

Have a loo at http://datatables.net/forums/discussion/33822