Extract date from string in python

Question

How can I extract "20151101" (as string) from "Campaign on 01.11.2015"?

I have read this one: Extracting date from a string in Python . But I am getting stuck when converting from Match object to string.

Answer 1

With minor tweaks in the aforementioned post, you can get it to work.

import re
from datetime import datetime

text = "Campaign on 01.11.2015"

match = re.search(r'\d{2}.\d{2}.\d{4}', text)
date = datetime.strptime(match.group(), '%d.%m.%Y').date()
print str(date).replace("-", "")
20151101

Answer 2

Here is one way, using re.sub():

import re

s = "Campaign on 01.11.2015"

new_s = re.sub(r"Campaign on (\d+)\.(\d+)\.(\d+)", r'\3\2\1', s)

print new_s

And another, using re.match():

import re

s = "Campaign on 01.11.2015"

match = re.match(r"Campaign on (\d+)\.(\d+)\.(\d+)", s)
new_s = match.group(3)+match.group(2)+match.group(1)

print new_s