Matchtext

[Dar Scott]

On Thursday, July 31, 2003, at 10:58 AM, Alex Rice wrote:

> Here is one that handles different lengths for the digits, but doesn't  
> check the ranges of the day and month numbers. But that could be done  
> in transcript.
>
> put matchText(tLine, "(\d{1,2})/(\d{1,2})/(\d{2,4})", tDay, tMo, tYr)

I like this better.  The other only did partial checking anyway, so if  
date checking is needed, Transcript is a good way to go.  The other did  
have an advantage in that it would be less likely pick up something in  
a long text that looked like a date but was not.

Dar Scott


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