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I have textarea where users enter details, I want to extract year from the textarea. The problem is users enter year in different ways.
some users input dates as 1999 or '99 or september 99. how can I use a single regex string to extract year.
This should work for extracting the mentioned dates out of text:
This came to my mind, too (it gives the user a little more freedom):
All of the above would be easier when parsed with multiple expressions. Why do you need a single one?
If you simply want to parse a string that contains nothing else than this, you should use PHP’s
strtotime()-function.