detecting date expressions

regular expressions to detect date and time expressions

[Socrates]

Hi, everyone

I hope to detect date expressions in text, as you know there are several ways to represent dates (e.g 10/30/2004, october/30/ 04, etc.)

The same is for time expressions

Do you know how can I get this kind of information from text.

I really appreiate any commment.

Have a nice day

Socrates

[NemoV]

I wouldn't know. I think a good place to start to figure it out is look at some of the calendar scripts out there that has the function you need and go from there.

Have a wonderful day

NemoV

[Moby_Dim]

may be make a few alternatives like /(pattern0¦pattern1¦pattern2¦...)/

but each pattern may need sub-alternatives too

[wruppert]

The modules Date::Parse and Class::Date can figure out what date/time a particular string is. They might be a starting point for plucking date/times out of generalized text.

[DavidFilmer]

Date::Manip can parse an astonishing range of date expressions. For example:

the first monday in june, 2006
24 days and 7 minutes from now
yesterday (or tomorrow)
last Wednesday
45 hours ago