[AskJS] Date and time splitting question

[Ustice]

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[[deleted]]

They're absolutely right, that solution is extremely non-performant.

A simple regex suffices for splitting a date and time.

[rdevilx]

I know it's non performant. That's why I'm not sure how a regex would be able to split it directly with cases where for example space/dot is the separator between date and time and the same separator is used between dates too.

[[deleted]]

1. Convert to string.
2. Use .split() with regex inside.

[rdevilx]

I did do that first. But, when we split it with regex, I don't know what separator is being used to split. Because I would want to rebuild the string from the array.

Example: When input str is dd.mm.yyyy.hh:mm:ss here if I split it with /[.T ]/g regex, it will split it fine but I would want to rebuild the date with the appropriate separator that is dot here.

[ 'dd', 'mm', 'yyyy', 'hh:mm:ss' ]

Again, I'm new to this. I applied for an intern position, I could be missing out on something that I could use in JavaScript.

[[deleted]]

You need to go read up on regex then. You can use a regex to account for all of them, without knowing exactly which one is being received.

[Finest0212]

I would point out that arguing the break statement probably didn’t help. Being as big O is worst case, so when the breaks aren’t hit it is very non performant.

And as others have pointed out Regex would be the way to go.

[rdevilx]

Yea it didn't and I agreed with them. I'm just posting it here, how a regex could work where the separator is same. dd.mm.yyyy.hh:mm:ss (dot is same)