Regular Expression patterns for Tracking numbers
Does anybody know good place or patterns for checking which company tracking number is the given tracking number for a package. Idea is After scanning a barcode for a package check tracking number with patterns and show which company it was shipped by.
Answer
Just thought I would post an update on this as I am working on this to match via jquery and automatically select the appropriate shipping carrier. I compiled a list of the matching regex for my project and I have tested a lot of tracking numbers across UPS FedEX and USPS.
If you come across something which doesn't match, please let me know here via comments and I will try to come up for that as well.
UPS:
/\b(1Z ?[0-9A-Z]{3} ?[0-9A-Z]{3} ?[0-9A-Z]{2} ?[0-9A-Z]{4} ?[0-9A-Z]{3} ?[0-9A-Z]|[\dT]\d\d\d ?\d\d\d\d ?\d\d\d)\b/
FedEX: (3 Different Ones)
/(\b96\d{20}\b)|(\b\d{15}\b)|(\b\d{12}\b)/
/\b((98\d\d\d\d\d?\d\d\d\d|98\d\d) ?\d\d\d\d ?\d\d\d\d( ?\d\d\d)?)\b/
/^[0-9]{15}$/
USPS: (4 Different Ones)
/(\b\d{30}\b)|(\b91\d+\b)|(\b\d{20}\b)/
/^E\D{1}\d{9}\D{2}$|^9\d{15,21}$/
/^91[0-9]+$/
/^[A-Za-z]{2}[0-9]+US$/
Please note that I did not come up with these myself. I simply searched around and compiled the list from different sources, including some which may have been mentioned here.
Thanks
Edit: Fixed missing end delimiter.