Challenge #4: Date Parsing

[Tberney]

Gave regex a workout

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[Tberney]

Hi, everyone. Just posted my solution.

Then I went to look at the solution provided, and Google decided to block the download: ....yxmd may be dangerous, so Chrome has blocked it".

I've downloaded dozens of these and this is the first time this has happened. Anyone else have the experience?

[manjarigoyal1975]

Solution for Challenge #4

[DemandEngineer]

Hi I was thinking the same as you but I found Designer acting strangely... did you find the same? Is it a bug? or am I misunderstanding how RegEx works... please help me understand.

This is what I ended up using:

.*(\d{2}-[[:alpha:]]+-\d{2,4}).*|.*(\d-[[:alpha:]]+-\d{2,4}).*|.*([[:alpha:]]{3}\s\d{2},\s\d{4}).*|.*([[:alpha:]]{3}\s\d{1,2}\s\d{4}).*

Because it didn't parse  properly when I used this at the beginning

.*(\d{1,2}-[[:alpha:]]+-\d{2,4}).*

Also didn't know how to handle the variation where there was a comma and space after the day of month and no comma just a space...  So I just repeated most of the pattern and made another variation.

I would lose the first character of the date each time... is it trying to minimize what is matched?  If yes, is there a better way to write this without so much overlap?

[DemandEngineer]

This was good learning... I wasn't familiar with RegEx.  My solution used multiple run of the DateTime tool to keep things simple vs formula that might need troubleshooting if things go awry.

[sumanthskumar]

Challenge #45

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[mihir_sampat]

Pretty sure not the best solution out there. Couldn't figure out the regular expression in one single line so used multiple regular expression and came up with a solution. Any constructive criticism is very appreciated. 

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[dhmalik]

My solution for the Challenge 4.

[dmhatchell]

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My RegEx capability is almost non-existent. So I took the first tool in the solution to get the dates out. But otherwise used my own solution for the rest of it.

[LHolmes]

Had some fun with RegEx on this one and was able to get my parsing down to (A|B).

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