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    5 digit phone numbers & form validation

    Tried applying for a credit card this morning. Couldn't submit the application because I got a validation error on the required landline number field - mine has only 5 digits.

    So I rang Virgin who promptly told me that they would also not be able to process my application because they'd be using the same web page and I have an "invalid" number.

    FFS

    No doubt because the dufus that coded the validation for that form probably copied the phone no. Reg ex from RegularExpressions.com. I get this all the time...


    Edit: spoke to someone more intelligent & she said mobile no is OK but even so...
    Last edited by Big Blue Plymouth; 17 December 2018, 10:49.

    #2
    Please be posting your phone number here and we will be doing the needful.

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      #3
      So your phone number is neither (01234) 123456 or (0123) 123 1234 format?

      I remember my parents' number used to be 4 digits after the area code and then changed to 6 about 25 or so years ago. I didn't think any short numbers were left after the exchanges were updated

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        #4
        we'l be a copy of your passport wanting, and your bank details furthermore too.

        kind thanks

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          #5
          Originally posted by ladymuck View Post
          So your phone number is neither (01234) 123456 or (0123) 123 1234 format?
          Exactly. It's 01234 12345. And if I ever have to enter it in a required field I invariably get problems.

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            #6
            It's just Virgin don't want any customers from Chesterfield, Ripley or Derby.
            Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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              #7
              Originally posted by ladymuck View Post
              So your phone number is neither (01234) 123456 or (0123) 123 1234 format?

              I remember my parents' number used to be 4 digits after the area code and then changed to 6 about 25 or so years ago. I didn't think any short numbers were left after the exchanges were updated
              When I lived in deepest darkest Somerset our home phone number was (01460) 36028 even after the big phone number changes on PhONEday, it was a nightmare when ever we had to fill in an online form for the same reasons BBP is having
              Originally posted by Stevie Wonder Boy
              I can't see any way to do it can you please advise?

              I want my account deleted and all of my information removed, I want to invoke my right to be forgotten.

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                #8
                Mention the word "landline" to a millennial and they look at you like you're some sort of weirdo.
                His heart is in the right place - shame we can't say the same about his brain...

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                  #9
                  Interestingly, number-of-digits doesn't appear in "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Phone Numbers"

                  I would have expected it to be first on the list.

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by Big Blue Plymouth View Post
                    Exactly. It's 01234 12345. And if I ever have to enter it in a required field I invariably get problems.
                    You're a digit short of a phone number? Hmmm, six yard tap-in anyone?
                    The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't exist

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