Question

I have string for example: 06.07.2010 (tor.)

I would like to extract only 06.07.2010 using a regex, but the following is not working correctly:

^([0-9]{1,2}).([0-9]{1,2}).([0-9]{4,4})$
^([1-9]|0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])[- /.]([1-9]|0[1-9]|1[012])[- /.][0-9]{4}$

Can someone tell me what is wrong here?

Answer 1

It’s the $ at the end. It means there can’t be any characters after the year digits – in other words, the RE has to match the entire string.

You probably want this instead:

^([0-9]{1,2}).([0-9]{1,2}).([0-9]{4,4})