Question

I have a date in this format

11/28/2011 2:39:00 PM

I cant seem to get a way to extract to each element out of this format (like take out day, month, year, hour, minute, second, AM/PM) separately to work with them. I need help here, so i can use this to rearrange the time manually and work with it how i want. I cant find a solution for this. (but im pretty sure i would need to use regex)

Answer 1

Though I’m sure regex isn’t the best way to do it, here are some regex’s that I tested on rubular.com!

Month:

(\d){2}(?=\/\d\d\/) 

Day:

(\d){2}(?=\/\d\d\d\d)

Year:

(\d){4}(?=\s)

Hour:

(\d){1,2}(?=:\d\d:\d\d\s)

Minute:

(\d){2}(?=:\d\d\s)

Second:

(\d){2}(?=\s\w\w\b)

AM/PM:

\b[PA]M\b