JavaScript DHTML/Date Time/Date Parse
Date parse Example
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<html> <body> <button onclick="var myDate = new Date();
alert(Date.parse(myDate));">Date: PARSE</button>
</body> </html>
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Find a date string with regular expression
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<html> <head> <title>Find Date</title> </head> <body> <script type="text/javascript"> var regExp = /:\D*\s\d+\s\d+/; var str = "This is a date: March 12 2008"; var resultString = str.match(regExp); document.writeln("Date" + resultString); </script> </body> </html>
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Use regular expression to check a date
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<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>A date</TITLE> <SCRIPT> function checkDate(testStr) {
var pattern = /\b(\d{2})\/(\d{2})\/(\d{4})\b/;
var result = testStr.match(pattern);
if (result != null)
return "It is a date!";
else
return "Not a date.";
} </SCRIPT> </HEAD> <BODY> <FORM name="theForm">
