从php中的字符串中提取日期

Question

I need to extract dates from a string: For example the string is "...period from 06/01/2014 to 06/30/2014". How can I extract these two dates as:

$date1 = "06/01/2014"; 
$date2="06/30/2014";

Answer 1

like this

$string = "period from 06/01/2014 to 06/30/2014";

$results = array();

preg_match_all('#\d{2}/\d{2}/\d{4}#', $string, $results);

$date1 = $results[0][0];
$date2 = $results[0][1];