Oops, meant REMatch(), not REFind(). Use REMatch() and it'll do exactly what you want. Just be sure to check the length of the returned array before using it.
--- Ben -----Original Message----- From: Monique Boea [mailto:moniqueb...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 2:02 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Extracting a date from a string This give me the value of 32 <cfset string="Department Summary by Employee 10/27/2010 - 10/27/2010"> <cfset dates=REFind("[0-1][0-9]/[0-3][0-9]/[0-9]{4}", string)> <cfoutput>#dates#</cfoutput> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Ben Forta <b...@forta.com> wrote: > > Assuming that the dates are always in mm/dd/yyyy format, I'd use a > regular expression, something like this: > > <cfset string="*Department Summary by Employee 10/27/2010 - > 10/27/2010*"> <cfset dates=REFind("[0-1][0-9]/[0-3][0-9]/[0-9]{4}", > string)> > > <disclaimer> > Code written on the fly with no testing ;-) </disclaimer> > > Dates will then be an array, and in your example dates[1] will be the > start date and dates[2] the second date. > > --- Ben > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Monique Boea [mailto:moniqueb...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 1:42 PM > To: cf-talk > Subject: Extracting a date from a string > > > Hello All. > > How would you go about extracting the date from this string: > > *Department Summary by Employee 10/27/2010 - 10/27/2010* > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:341416 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
