Regular expression to find the date

paolo mazza mazzapaoloitaly at gmail.com
Thu Jan 5 08:05:51 EST 2012


Thank you Thierry,
your regular expression works. It was very kind of you.
All the best

Paolo

On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Thierry Douez <th.douez at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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"
>>
>>
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