// include the latest version of the regex crate in your Cargo.toml
extern crate regex;
use regex::Regex;
fn main() {
let regex = Regex::new(r"\d{4}([-/.])\d{1,2}\1\d{1,2}").unwrap();
let string = "i'm using python regex to match dates in forms as: 1999-01-01 or 1999.1.1 or 1999-1-1. but not ones like 1999.1-1 or 1999-1.1.i.e. the signs between year month and day must be consistent. I use the following code to do it which is messy. is there a better way to do it?";
// result will be an iterator over tuples containing the start and end indices for each match in the string
let result = regex.captures_iter(string);
for mat in result {
println!("{:?}", mat);
}
}
Please keep in mind that these code samples are automatically generated and are not guaranteed to work. If you find any syntax errors, feel free to submit a bug report. For a full regex reference for Rust, please visit: https://docs.rs/regex/latest/regex/