Event Ingest

Story

In this story, you have a program which needs to ingest events, but messages are using 3 different date formats:

  • "01/01/1970"
  • "January 1, 1970"
  • "Thursday, January 1, 1970"

Job is to write regex to match and capture from each type.

Touches on:

  • matching literal characters
  • quantifiers
  • alternations
  • character classes
  • anchors

Tasks

  • Create patterns to match small components
  • Build on and create patterns which capture the small components
  • Build on and create patterns which capture from supplied date formats
  • Build on and create regex which matches and captures only that date format

Implementations