Matching Dates

[CrashRoX]

Im trying to match different types of dates....

$text = 'Some text and a date Jan 25, 2006 and another date 10/25/06 and another 10-06-98 and one more January 5, 2003';

preg_match_all("/^(?:(?:(?:0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|30)-(?:Sep|Apr|Jun|Nov))|
(?:(?:0[1-9]|[12][0-9])-Feb)|(?:(?:0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])-
(?:Jan|Mar|May|Jul|Aug|Oct|Nov|Dec)))-\d{4}$/", $text, $matched);

print_r($matched);

[bpat1434]

And your issue is?

[CrashRoX]

hah, it doesnt work and I dont know why

[bpat1434]

I figured as much, but what doesn't work? Does it not return anything? Does it return only some dates... what?

[CrashRoX]

Just returns and empty array, its not finding any of the dates.

[bpat1434]

Well, maybe this is a simplified approach, but this pattern:

@([0-9|Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sept|Oct|Nov|Dec]+[\s|/|-]+\d{1,2}[,\s|/|-]+\d{2,4})@si

Gets me these results:

Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [0] => Jan 25, 2006
            [1] => date 10/25
            [2] => er 10-06
            [3] => January 5, 2003
        )

)

You'll have to do some tweaking....

[CrashRoX]

Its a start. Going to play with it. Thanks.