PHP regex extract date

Question

i have $date variable 2009-04-29 which is Y-m-d

anybody can give idea how to extract into $d, $m, $y using simplest method as possible? regex is preferable. any more suggestion with simple method will be chosen. :)

Answer 1

Use explode function

list ( $y, $m , $d ) = explode( '-' , $date ) ; 

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Answer 2

You could easily avoid regex by using

$y = substr($date, 0,4);
$m = substr($date, 5,2);
$d = substr($date, -2);

Edit: If you really want regex, you will have one =)

Try

preg_match('/(\d{4})-(\d{2})-(\d{2})/',  $date, $matches)
$y = $matches[1];
$m = $matches[2];
$d = $matches[3];

(I do not know if the backslashes in the expression need to be escaped, sorry)