>i have the following string:
>
>Peter Cortiel 860-555-11234 or
>Jack Kennedy (860) 555-1234
>
>and need to extract the phone#
>
>this should work but does not:
>

>lparameters tcText
>tcPassword = Alltrim(tcText)
>
>Local oRE
>oRE = CreateObject("VBScript.RegExp")
>oRE.Pattern = "^\+?\(?\d+\)?(\s|\-|\.)?\d{1,3}(\s|\-|\.)?\d{4}$"
>oResults = oRE.execute(tcText)
>For Each oResult in oResults
>  WAIT WINDOW oResult.Value
>Next
>RETURN
>
>

>what am I doing wrong extracting the phone number
>
>Thnaks
>
>Peter
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Peter,

On first sight, remove the first and the last char from your pattern
Your pattern does not search in the string, you force the whole string to match with ^ and $