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Regular Expression to grab a date

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Updated September 3, 2015
asked on September 3, 2015

I'm just starting to learn expressions for pattern matching and I'm having a hard time figuring out what expression I would use to grab the year for the pattern matching section of the workflow I'm working on.

 

The token needs to grab the year from a form which is in this format mm/dd/yyyy. I just need it to grab the yyyy.

 

What's the expression for that?

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replied on September 3, 2015

You can use \d{4}$ as that will grab the last four digits before the end of the input.

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replied on September 3, 2015

Just to be sure. When I use the testing in the pattern matching tool, it's not giving me the date. Here's a screenshot.

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replied on September 3, 2015

It looks like you have a space in front of the pattern. Remove the white space before the \d{4}$

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replied on September 3, 2015

Amazing you saw that! Thanks this works perfect!

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