Challenge #4: Date Parsing

[JoeS]

For only having one tool in my solution I am glad you can't see my run count while I sorted the regex out.

Went by identify each type of date format and adding it to the regex as and or (the pipe |) and then did the same number of steps to parse it, although had to do it as an elseif statement rather than the cleaner regex.

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[Paul-Evans]

Nice challenge for learning additional regex functionality

[Paul-Evans]

@MarqueeCrew

Thanks for your solution. I now know how to refer to marked groups in Regex formulas (e.g. $1) and went down a nice rabbit hole learning about lazy and greedy quantifiers to make sense of how the ".*?" behaved (which is much simpler than the workaround I came up with). 

[Shivam]

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[allanq2001]

thanks for this .. intro to Regex

[jssandom]

My first 'advanced' challenge!.. pure brute force to be honest

[HuwHallam]

Here's my version... I feel like there must be an easier way, but good practice with RegExs at least! Looking forward to seeing what others have done.

[mek201gs]

Loved the tricks with sentences (marrying) and the date range (19 vs 20). Thanks!

[JamesMA]

First advanced challenge complete!