Re:Common Regular Expressions Made Simple
by ygra on Tuesday December 17, 2013 @07:26AM
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It's not validation in this case, it's finding them in a body of text. For validation you generally have it easier because you often only deal with a single datum in a field (and thus string).
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Re:Common Regular Expressions Made Simple
by masklinn on Tuesday December 17, 2013 @08:02AM
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The CLDR provides locale-specific formats for some datum types (IIRC numbers, dates, and durations). These formats can probably be reversed into the corresponding regular expression in order to perform locale-aware data detection.
Of course further complexity is added in people being able to provide partial and context-dependent information, which is much harder to detect e.g. "December 3rd"