c# - Regex to extract date time from given string

Question

I want to extract date from the string through regex.

String : log-bb-2014-02-12-12-06-13-diag

How to do it?

Answer 1

Here something to start:

string s = "log-bb-2014-02-12-12-06-13-diag";
Regex r = new Regex(@"d{4}-d{2}-d{2}-d{2}-d{2}-d{2}");
Match m = r.Match(s);
if(m.Success)
{
    DateTime dt = DateTime.ParseExact(m.Value, "yyyy-MM-dd-hh-mm-ss", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
}