Getting a date from a string containing a date with jQuery

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Basically, I have a string like this:

text text text text text 1/12/2012 text text text text

I need to somehow get that date out of the string. I'm terrible with regular expressions, and I was wondering if there's an easy way to get it with jQuery.

a'r · Accepted Answer · 2011-11-03 16:53:25Z

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You don't need jQuery for this, just use a regular expression, eg.

/\d{1,2}\/\d{1,2}\/\d{4}/.exec('text text 1/12/2012 text text')

Note, that this only extracts strings that look like a date and they may be invalid.

edited Nov 3, 2011 at 16:53

answered Nov 3, 2011 at 16:10

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a'r Over a year ago

The exec function returns an array, so you will need to use tdate[0] to get the matched part of the string.

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