Regex pattern not identifying pattern

Question

I'm using a regex pattern to extract matching items from a string

My pattern is :

"^(([^\\.\\-\\,a-wy-z]([\\(]?(\\+|[x])?\\d+[\\)]?)?[\\s\\.\\-\\,]?([\\(\\d[\\)]?)?[\\s\\.\\-\\,]?(\\d+[\\s\\.\\-\\,]?)+[^\\.\\-\\,a-z])|((\\+|[x])?\\d+))$"

My string is

"This is the string +971 987654321 form which +91 9876543210 all the phone number +91 987 654 3210 has to be extracted +91 987 654 3210 and displayed in the +971-98-7654321 logcat and the post office box  number is 233227"

But unfortunately the pattern is not identifying any matching pattern from the string. I have validated the expression from "Check RegExp" through intention action. Here the pattern successfully identifies all the phone numbers that i have used in my string

Any help is appreciated.

RegEx is considered a write only language for a reason. That's a nearly impossible to read piece of code. Regex on english strings, especially when trying to find something as ill formatted as a phone number, is generally not a good approach. — Gabe Sechan
– Gabe Sechan, Commented Apr 22, 2016 at 6:03
Assuming least number of 10 digits in phone number :- regex101.com/r/iO0dI3/1 will work — rock321987
– rock321987, Commented Apr 22, 2016 at 6:05

rock321987 · Accepted Answer · 2016-04-22 06:17:32Z

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Assuming at least 10 digits in your phone number(excluding +, space, - etc.), this will work

\s+(\+[\d\s-]{10,})\s+

Regex Demo

If you assume, there can be no spaces separating a number and word,then you can use

(\+[\d\s-]{10,})

edited Apr 22, 2016 at 6:17

answered Apr 22, 2016 at 6:12

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Renjithnath Ramachandran Over a year ago

Thanks a lot @rock321987. That one really helped me

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