Regular expression to find the date

[Thierry Douez]

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

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

Hi again Paolo,

Just for fun...

Look at this new Reg exp. below
and see how it matches more precisely dates...

felice anno nuovo !

Thierry


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   -- Bad:
   put "sfgsfg  35/01/2011 t trtr" into aString
   put "sfgsfg  5/0/2011 t trtr" into aString
   put "sfgsfg  5/10/1011 t trtr" into aString
   -- Ok:
   put "sfgsfg  05/01/2011 t trtr" into aString
   put "sfgsfg  05-01-2011 t trtr" into aString
   put "sfgsfg  05.01.2011 t trtr" into aString

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

   put "((0[1-9]|1[012])[-/.](0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])[-/.](19|20)\d\d)"
into myRegEx

   put matchText( aString, myRegEx, theDate) into rslt1
   put matchChunk( aString, myRegEx, pos1, pos2) into rslt2

   get  format( "rslt1: %s \nrslt2: %s \nDate: %s      pos1: %s,  pos2:
%s\n\n", \
          rslt1, rslt2,  theDate, pos1, pos2 )

   put IT

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