Recognise an arbitrary date string

Question

I need to be able to recognise date strings. It doesn\'t matter if I can not distinguish between month and date (e.g. 12/12/10), I just need to classify the string as being

Answer 1

Usually dates are characters separated by a back/forward slash or a dash. Did you consider a regular expression?

I am assuming you are not looking to classify dates of the type Sunday, October 3rd 2010 and so on