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How can I extract the date from an arbitrary string such as "Joe Soap was born on 12 February 1981"?

Python has a wonderful fuzzy parsing functionality provided by python-dateutil as described in this question.

I'm looking for a library that provides the same type of functionality in PHP.

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What about date_parse , but if you know your date format, just use the regex to get what you want.

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  • date_parse() is exactly what I was looking for and provides fuzzy date matching. Regex is not an option since the input format is unknown. – Richard Keller Nov 07 '11 at 10:31