April 2004 - Posts

• Not Dates again

  I had pretty much decided I wasn't going to talk anymore about dates, for awhile at least. Despite the fact I had created a newer version of my datetime regex. But a recent comment made it seem needed. I've posted 11 different date regexs to the www.Regexplib.com Read More... Posted Friday, April 23, 2004 1:00 AM by mash | 2 Comments Filed under: Dates

• Unicode character class

  One day a co-worker ask me to look at a regex that wasn’t working. The regex was checking for e-mail and was using the character class \p{L}, which I didn’t recognize. Fortunately my co-worker had already worked around the non-working expression Read More... Posted Saturday, April 17, 2004 1:47 AM by mash | 2 Comments Filed under: Bugs/Quirks

• Different date formats

  In the first few weeks after posting my date regex, ( http://www.regexlib.com/REDetails.aspx?regexp_id=113 ) which validated mm-dd-yyyy format I received several request for a dd-mm-yyyy version. I reluctantly fulfilled these request. After the 3rd request Read More... Posted Friday, April 09, 2004 1:50 PM by mash | 0 Comments Filed under: Dates

• Another look at dates

  About a year after I posted my original date regex ( http://www.regexlib.com/REDetails.aspx?regexp_id=113 ) I saw several other date regexs that had be posted. Many used my pattern as a base. The new expressions were different though the changes seemed Read More... Posted Monday, April 05, 2004 1:39 PM by mash | 0 Comments Filed under: Dates

• Dealing with dates and leap years

  When I first begin working with regex one of the very first that I wrote dealt with dates. ( http://www.regexlib.com/REDetails.aspx?regexp_id=113 ) The unique thing about it when I posted it was that it correctly handled dates in leap years. Since I posted Read More... Posted Friday, April 02, 2004 1:37 PM by mash | 0 Comments Filed under: Dates