Regular Expressions 101

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Regular Expression
PCRE (PHP <7.3)

/
(?:(AT)\s*(U\d{8}))|(?:(BE)\s*(0?\d{*}))|(?:(CZ)\s*(\d{8,10}))|(?:(DE)\s*(\d{9}))|(?:(CY)\s*(\d{8}[A-Z]))|(?:(DK)\s*(\d{8}))|(?:(EE)\s*(\d{9}))|(?:(GR)\s*(\d{9}))|(?:(ES|NIF:?)\s*([0-9A-Z]\d{7}[0-9A-Z]))|(?:(FI)\s*(\d{8}))|(?:(FR)\s*([0-9A-Z]{2}\d{9}))|(?:(GB)\s*((\d{9}|\d{12})~(GD|HA)\d{3}))|(?:(HU)\s*(\d{8}))|(?:(IE)\s*(\d[A-Z0-9\\+\\*]\d{5}[A-Z]))|(?:(IT)\s*(\d{11}))|(?:(LT)\s*((\d{9}|\d{12})))|(?:(LU)\s*(\d{8}))|(?:(LV)\s*(\d{11}))|(?:(MT)\s*(\d{8}))|(?:(NL)\s*(\d{9}B\d{2}))|(?:(PL)\s*(\d{10}))|(?:(PT)\s*(\d{9}))|(?:(SE)\s*(\d{12}))|(?:(SI)\s*(\d{8}))|(?:(SK)\s*(\d{10}))|(?:\D|^)(\d{11})(?:\D|$)|(?:(CHE)(-|\s*)(\d{3}\.\d{3}\.\d{3}))|(?:(SM)\s*(\d{5}))
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Description

Based on information provided by European Commission (source: http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/technicalInformation.html) "The European Commission cannot divulge these algorithms. However, the structure of VAT identification numbers is given and used here for the testing of the validations"

based on https://regex101.com/library/Pb0sAf

Submitted by calvomat - 6 years ago