In my experience (which is not the sum totality of existence), once you start down a way of doing things, you tend to stick with it, and you always have to do more complicated things. Just as you said, Date::* is better for more complex things. Right now, you're right in that a regex would probably be just fine. If this wasn't code for production use, I would probably also use a regex.

However, in my advice, I always assume (unless otherwise noted) that the poster is asking about code that will eventually end up in production use. Unless you're someone like japhy, Abilgail-II, or tye, I would not recommend using regexes to parse irregular formats in production code. (And, yes, dates are irregular formats, regardless of whether you know where it's coming from. You might know today, but you don't know about tomorrow.)

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In reply to Re3: Date Regex by dragonchild
in thread Date Regex by danambrose

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