in reply to Finding dates in unstructured text

Oh no! The terrorist must have hidden a bomb in the stadium! But to find when it'll explode we'd have to search through 200 MB of emails looking for anything that looks like a date!

Anyway, I heared perl 6 may help you here, because it has a better way to write regular expressions. (Just kidding.)

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Re^2: Finding dates in unstructured text
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jan 12, 2011 at 20:22 UTC
    I suspect most people assume the new skill being illustrated is Perl regular expressions, but it's really speed typing code with one hand. :)
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      On the US-English layout, I can type backslash, parenthesis, vertical bar, splat, question mark, colon, plus, brackets all with one hand, so regular expressions are well suited to one-hand typing.

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      Bet it fails to find "jeudi 13 janvier" :-)
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