Simple Date Regex

[shahrukh1]

I've read this thread

http://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/12377-common-expressions/

 

I've tried to match my patter to extract the date from this

On:</td>
	  <td><strong>9/30/12</strong></td>

 

here is my expression

"#On:</td>\s*<td><strong>\s*<td><strong>(1-9){1,2}[\/](1-9){1,2}[\/](1-9){1,2}</strong></td></strong></td>#i"

 

it is not working for me, please help

[DarkerAngel]

Try this maybe?

'%On:</td>\s*<td><strong>\s*(\d){1,2}[/](\d){1,2}[/](\d){1,2}%i'

 

A couple things I noticed:

• Your range is only 1-9 missing 0's (Mine is \d matching numerals)
  (Also it wasn't placed in a range modifier so it would have tried literally matching "1-9")
  
• Your opening and closing <td> <strong> html elements are trying to match 2x (on both sides) as oppose to your initial test subject, in which the tags only appear once.
  

[shahrukh1]

no cigar

 

what is the use of % instead of #?

[DarkerAngel]

Nothing at all, simply put it's only a regex delimiter ( #, %, /, &, ~, ! ), I just normally go with the one RegexBuddy gives me usually saves the "Opps, I'm using that in my expression" problem.

 

'%On:</td>\s*<td><strong>(\d{1,2})/(\d{1,2})/(\d{1,2})%i'

 

Few More Points I guess I missed when I posted previously:

• For some reason I left the " / " in the [ ] range delimiter even though " / " is not a range
  
• I had repetition modifiers outside the capture group resulting in a Last Case capture (in tester)
  
• Had a whitespace search after the <strong> tag though it didn't seem to affect the tester
  

This one might work a little better, if not I might need to see more of what you're trying to match against since my tester is reporting it a valid match (as well as capture groups)

[shahrukh1]

thank you it works.