Question

Hopefully this won’t be too difficult, but I’m not too skilled in regular expressions. I have a string that contains two dates and would like to extract the two dates into an array or something using JAVASCRIPT.

Here’s my string: “I am available Thursday, October 28, 2009 through Saturday, November 7, 2009”

I would like for the array to be:
arr[0] = “Thursday, October 28, 2009”
arr[1] = “Saturday, November 7, 2009”

Is this even possible to do?

Thanks for all your help!

Answer 1

You don’t need a regular expression for a (mostly) static string like that. How about:

var s = "I am available Thursday, October 28, 2009 through Saturday, November 7, 2009";
var dates = s.split('available')[1].split('through');
trim(dates[0]); // "Thursday, October 28, 2009"
trim(dates[1]); // "Saturday, November 7, 2009"

trim() strips leading + trailing whitespace:

function trim(str) {
    return str.replace(/^\s\s*/, '').replace(/\s\s*$/, '');
}