NAME

Regexp::Common::URI::tel -- Returns a pattern for telephone URIs.

SYNOPSIS 

    use Regexp::Common qw /URI/;

    while (<>) {
        /$RE{URI}{tel}/       and  print "Contains a telephone URI.\n";
    }

DESCRIPTION

$RE{URI}{tel}

Returns a pattern that matches tel URIs, as defined by RFC 2806. Under {-keep}, the following are returned:

$1
The complete URI.
$2
The scheme.
$3
The phone number, including any possible add-ons like ISDN subaddress, a post dial part, area specifier, service provider, etc.

$RE{URI}{tel}{nofuture}

As above (including what's returned by {-keep}), with the exception that future extensions are not allowed. Without allowing those future extensions, it becomes much easier to check a URI if the correct syntax for post dial, service provider, phone context, etc has been used - otherwise the regex could always classify them as a future extension.

REFERENCES

[RFC 1035]
Mockapetris, P.: DOMAIN NAMES - IMPLEMENTATION AND SPECIFICATION. November 1987.
[RFC 2396]
Berners-Lee, Tim, Fielding, R., and Masinter, L.: Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax. August 1998.
[RFC 2806]
Vaha-Sipila, A.: URLs for Telephone Calls. April 2000.

HISTORY 

 $Log: tel.pm,v $
 Revision 2.102  2008/05/23 21:30:10  abigail
 Changed email address

 Revision 2.101  2008/05/23 21:28:02  abigail
 Changed license

 Revision 2.100  2003/02/10 21:06:42  abigail
 tel URI

SEE ALSO

Regexp::Common::URI for other supported URIs.

AUTHOR

Damian Conway (damian@conway.org)

MAINTAINANCE

This package is maintained by Abigail (regexp-common@abigail.be).

BUGS AND IRRITATIONS

Bound to be plenty.

COPYRIGHT

This software is Copyright (c) 2001 - 2008, Damian Conway and Abigail.

This module is free software, and maybe used under any of the following licenses: 

 1) The Perl Artistic License.     See the file COPYRIGHT.AL.
 2) The Perl Artistic License 2.0. See the file COPYRIGHT.AL2.
 3) The BSD Licence.               See the file COPYRIGHT.BSD.
 4) The MIT Licence.               See the file COPYRIGHT.MIT.