Mobile Number validation with Python

Hi Friends in this article we will discuss validating a mobile number with Python.

For the understanding purpose, we are going to validate a mobile number with a length of 10 digits only.

Example: 78*****45**

Mobile Number validation criteria

Coding part

For the coding part, we are going to use Python. In Python, we have a module called re module which can be used for pattern matching.

1. Now import ‘re’ module
2. To validate the mobile number we need to use a function fullmatch from the re module
   1. Fulllmatch is a function that takes two inputs i.e. one input for the pattern and the other for the string validation
   2. It returns a match object if and only if the entire string matches the pattern else it returns None
   3. Depending on the return value we can decide whether it is a valid number or not.
3. We can write various pattern for the same validation of string. For this number validation, I will show some methods
   1. ‘[6-9][0-9]{9}’ . This is simple which says that the starting should be between 6-9 and the next nine digits can be anything between 0-9.
   2. ‘[6-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]’. This pattern also works as similar to the above pattern.

 

import re # Importing re module
n=input('Enter Mobile number :')  # Reading input from the user
r=re.fullmatch('[6-9][0-9]{9}',n) # calling fullmatch function by passing pattern and n
if r!=None: # checking whether it is none or not 
     print('Valid Number')
else:
     print('Not a valid number')

Output:

Enter Mobile number: 781111111

Valid Number

For better understanding:

• For a better understanding of re module, click here
• For a better understanding of the full match function, clickhere