I'm using match() in JavaScript to parse a dates from an RSS feed, I just can't get my head around the correct regular expression to find the date format.
Here's the date:
2009-05-11 16:59:20
And the regular expression so far:
if (dateToParse.match(/^\d\d\d\d-\d\d-\d\d/)) {
dateTimeSeparator = " ";
monthIndex = 0;
dayIndex = 1;
yearIndex = 2;
}
Hopefully this helps:
var digitpattern = /\d+/g,
datetime = '2009-05-11 16:59:20',
matches = datetime.match(digitpattern);
console.log ('year = ' + matches[0]);
console.log ('month = ' + matches[1]);
console.log ('day = ' + matches[2]);
console.log ('hour = ' + matches[3]);
console.log ('minutes = ' + matches[4]);
console.log ('seconds = ' + matches[5]);
Or, you might like to use something like DateJS.
I think rather than struggling with regex you should try date.js. It is still in alpha but looks very promising with all its culture specific versions.
