Phone field regex problem

Question

Hi, I need a little help with my regex... it works good, except for one last issue.
/^\(?([0-9]{3})\)?[-. ]?([0-9]{3})[-. ]?([0-9]{4} ?)$/
I have a single phone field. And  it to allows just 10 digits, or digits with dashes, or digits with parenthesis, or digits with spaces. And it even allows the user to insert a white space at the end (by accident).  This all works good.
But I was told that no area codes in the US start with a 0 or 1?  How can I make it only have a range of 2 to 9 for the area code?
I tried to use [2-9] but this doesn't work.
Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

The problem is that you are trying to match three digits with a [2-9] range, not just the first number.
for example:
333-444-555 will match because all three of the first section of digits are between 2 and 9,
211-222-333 will not work, because 1, is the second number and you are only looking for 2-9.
does this make sense? you have the three first numbers group together in one rule
-Julia