Regular expression to find the date

[Thierry Douez]

Hi Paolo,

I changed your regular expression; see below.

Didn't check but should work.

HTH

Thierry

2012/1/5 paolo mazza <mazzapaoloitaly at gmail.com>

> Hi All,
> I have to find the date in a text. If I use this Regular Expression,
> it finds the date (returns true) but it returns just the first chars
> of the date..
>
> on mouseUp
>   put "sfgsfg gsfgs g 05/01/2011 t trtr" into FULLTEXT
>   put "((\d{2})|(\d))\/((\d{2})|(\d))\/((\d{4})|(\d{2}))" into MYSTRYNG
>


   put "((\d{2}|\d)/(\d{2}|\d)/(\d{4}|\d{2}))" into MYSTRYNG


  put matchText(FULLTEXT,MYSTRYNG,VAR0) into MYRESULT
>   put matchChunk(FULLTEXT,MYSTRYNG,VAR1, VAR2) into MYRESULT2
>   put MYRESULT && MYRESULT2 && VAR0 && VAR1 && VAR2
> end mouseUp
>
> It returns  "true true 05 16 17" instead of "true true 05/01/2011 16 25"
>
>