Validating a phone number in C++

[mwebster]

hey guys, I need to take a phone number in in the format of "(555)555-5555"

This is how I did it:

void CustomerData::setPhone(string temp)throw (string){
    bool correct[10] = {false};
    char possible[10] = {'1','2','3','4','5','6','7','8','9','0'};
    bool good = true;

    for(int i = 0; i<10; i++){
        if(temp.at(1)==possible[i]) correct[0] = true;
        if(temp.at(2)==possible[i]) correct[1] = true;
        if(temp.at(3)==possible[i]) correct[2] = true;
        if(temp.at(5)==possible[i]) correct[3] = true;
        if(temp.at(6)==possible[i]) correct[4] = true;
        if(temp.at(7)==possible[i]) correct[5] = true;
        if(temp.at(9)==possible[i]) correct[6] = true;
        if(temp.at(10)==possible[i]) correct[7] = true;
        if(temp.at(11)==possible[i]) correct[8] = true;
        if(temp.at(12)==possible[i]) correct[9] = false;
    }
    
    for(int i = 0; i < 10; i++){
        cout<<correct[i]<<endl;
        if(correct[i]!= true) good = false;
    }
    
    if(temp.length() != 13 || temp.at(0) != '(' || temp.at(4) != ')' || temp.at(8) != '-' || good == false)
        throw string("Incorrectly Formatted Phone Number\n");
    else
        phone = temp;
}

When it doesn't match It goes to an error that says the following in Dev-C++

This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.
Please contact the application's support team for more information.

Here's my main(where I catch the thrown strings):

#include <fstream>
#include "CustomerData.h"
#include "CDRecord.h"
using namespace std;

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    //create the file streams and load the files into them
    fstream file;
    fstream ofile;
    file.open("testFile.txt", ios::in);
    ofile.open("newfile.txt", ios::out);

    //Create the objects to be used for the input and output
    CustomerData cd;
    CDRecord cdr;

    //read in the file and add the information to the 
    //CDRecord object by means of adding the file information
    //to a CustomerData object and adding it to the CDRecord
    //object
    while(!file.eof()){        
        try{
            file>>cd;
            cdr+cd;
        }catch(string m){
            cout<<m;
            break;
        }
    }

    //Write all the information to the output file
    ofile<<cdr;

    system("PAUSE");
    return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

Any help greatly appreciated!

[Danny]

You need to break the string down into three components: characters [0] .. [4] then [5]...[8] and [9]...[13]. First, check whether the entered string consists of 13 characters. For the first part: check first whether c[0]=='(' and c[4]==')' then go through c[1] through c[3] and verify that they contain digits (you can use the isdigit() function to simplify this procedure). Define similar validation tests for the remaining parts and remember to pass string to and from functions by reference, not by value.