Parsing Dates
Explore how to apply regular expressions in JavaScript to parse different date formats into Date objects. Learn to capture key parts such as year, month, and day, and construct functions that convert string representations of dates into valid Date objects. Understand how to use regex patterns, string matching, and extraction techniques to handle practical date parsing scenarios.
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Problem statement
For the third exercise, let’s try to do something more practical. As the title suggests, you can easily use regular expressions to parse dates, which means you can grab a string that represents a date and turn it into the correct Date object.
Of course, there are a variety of libraries published out there that actually deal with this in all the right ways, but, because we’re trying to understand the power of RegExps, we’ll just ignore that fact for the time ...