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ChromeFoundry

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1. Not sure if it's critical

Reply to dogknob (Original post)

Sun May 4, 2014, 11:16 AM

May 2014

...I expanded the date parsing to match most valid dates....

http://regexr.com/38pt0

Note: it only checks for months between 01-12 and days between 01-31, last valid year is adjustable.

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It's 7:18am on Sunday morning. Wanna help me with a regular expression? [View all] dogknob May 2014 OP

Not sure if it's critical ChromeFoundry May 2014 #1

Ooooo! dogknob May 2014 #2

EDITED: might be done with this now. dogknob May 2014 #3

Here is an alternative RegEx tester ChromeFoundry May 2014 #4

Dude! the colors! dogknob May 2014 #5

Got a bit more fat trimmed off of it. dogknob May 2014 #6