Regular expression to find the date

Bernard Devlin bdrunrev at gmail.com
Thu Jan 5 05:23:08 EST 2012


I just want to offer the simplest solution first.  If there's a reason
why this won't work, please say.

put "sfgsfg gsfgs g 05/01/2011 t trtr" into tText
repeat for each word tWord in tText
 if tWord is a date then put tWord & cr after tFound
end repeat
put tFound

Maybe you are just looking to exeriment with regular expressions.  But
given your sample text and date format, the above works and will be
readily readable when you return to in 6 months.

Bernard

On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 8:59 AM, paolo mazza <mazzapaoloitaly at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 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"
>
>
> then if I change the text to search ...
>
> on mouseUp
>   put "sfgsfg gsfgs g 4/1/2011 t trtr" into FULLTEXT
>   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 4 16 16" instead of "true true 4/1/2011 16 24"
>
>
> Why ? Any idea?
>
> All the best,
>
> Paolo Mazza
>
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