Regular expression to find the date

[paolo mazza]

Thank you Thierry, it works very well. Now it accepts all a the date formats.
All the best
Paolo

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Thierry Douez <th.douez at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Paolo,
>
> Both of these solutions work great.
>> However, to me,  a perfect solution would be a combination of the two,
>>
>> A Regular Expression that accept
>>
>> 05/01/2011
>> 05-01-2011
>> 05.01.2011
>> ...
>> and also
>>
>> 11/9/2011
>> 5/10/2011
>> ...
>> as a date.
>>
>
> If you need an optional '0' for one digit day and month, add
> a question mark after the 0 in the Regexp, like this :
>
>   put
> "((0?[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])[-/.](0?[1-9]|1[012])[-/.]((19|20)\d\d))"  into
> myRegEx
>
>
> HTH,
>
> Thierry
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