Php get dates inside a string

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I have a string like this:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aenean 2017-03-31 ligula eget dolor. Aenean massa. 2016-03-04 sociis natoque penatibus...

I would like to get all the dates inside the text... the format dates are always yyyy-mm-dd.

Any suggestions?

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– John Conde, Commented Mar 31, 2017 at 15:07
try regular expressions, get the right pattern to match the dates and then use that pattern within the preg_match function , see php.net/manual/en/function.preg-match.php — John Cogan
– John Cogan, Commented Mar 31, 2017 at 15:10

Jouby · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-31 15:14:20Z

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Try to use preg_match and regex expression:

$string = "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aenean 2017-03-31 ligula eget dolor. Aenean massa. 2016-03-04 sociis natoque penatibus...";
$pattern = '/([0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2})/';
preg_match_all($pattern, $string, $matches);
print_r($matches);

To test regex, I suggest you to use https://regex101.com/

edited Mar 31, 2017 at 15:14

answered Mar 31, 2017 at 15:12

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Hossam · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-31 15:13:26Z

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preg_match("/[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{1,2}-[0-9]{1,2}/", $input_line, $output_array);

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chris85 · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-31 15:34:26Z

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Alright so what you have to do is figure out what you are trying to find, in your case yyyy-mm-dd.

So this would be it:

[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}

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answered Mar 31, 2017 at 15:11

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