My text files include dates in string fromat such as the following:
...the next social club meeting is on April 15, 1994...

...September 21-23, 1994 we will be hosting visitors...

...submissions should be made by 11 February 1994...

...Mail sent 7 Feb 1994...

...On the 16th September 1994 Mr X will be giving a talk on ...

...unconfirmed conference dates are March 4, 5 and 6, 1994...

(...is MY emphasis - for clarity's sake)
Have absolutely no knowledge of surrounding boundaries, nor where the strings can occur in the text, just got to pull them all out, so that I can then do some date normalisation...also, i've found that some of my strings are sometimes matching numeric strings...

In reply to Re^2: My code seems messy... by PerlGrrl
in thread My code seems messy... by PerlGrrl

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