regex for matching timestamp

Question

I need to extract out this text "start_time":"2018-08-05T17:41:29.933Z" form this string:

BLAH text BLAH text "start_time":"2018-08-05T17:41:29.933Z" blah TEXT BLAH text

I tried this: \[\"start_time\":\"(.*)\"\]

But it did not work. What am I missing here?

Thanks!

Are you sure you shouldn't instead parse properly your JSON format and get the start time like `var start = parsedJSON.start_time;`? To me, as soon I see people having JSON-alike strings like `foo text bar "prop":"val"` - is clear sign something went really wrong ;) — Roko C. Buljan, Aug 06 '18 at 19:14

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 06 '18 at 18:36

This pattern r'\"start_time\":\"(.*?)\"' should help you extract date

Ex: in python

import re
s = 'BLAH text BLAH text "start_time":"2018-08-05T17:41:29.933Z" blah TEXT BLAH text'
print(re.findall(r'\"start_time\":\"(.*?)\"', s))

Output:

['2018-08-05T17:41:29.933Z']

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