I'm trying to figure out how to extract dates from unstructured text using Ruby.
For example, I'd like to parse the date out of this string "Applications started after 12:00 A.M. Midnight (EST) February 1, 2010 will not be considered."
Any suggestions?
Also you can try a gem that can help find date in string.
Exapmle:
Assuming you just want dates and not datetimes:
Try Chronic (http://chronic.rubyforge.org/) it might be able to parse that otherwise you're going to have to use Date.strptime.