Regular Expressions 101

Community Patterns

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Regular Expression
PCRE2 (PHP >=7.3)

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^([MTWFS][\w]{2},) (\d{2}) ([A-Z][a-z]{2}) (\d{4}) (\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}) ([A-Z]{3,}|[+\-]\d+)$
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gm

Description

Test your RSS pubDate has a correctly formatted date value according to the RFC822 standard It will match timeZoneName (eg GMT, EST) or time zone offset (eg. +0100)

Submitted by anonymous - 6 months ago (Last modified 6 months ago)