https://community.appian.com/discussions/f/user-interface/19370/extract-date-from-input-textHi, I have an input text field where the user can enter text that might contain a date (MM/DD/YYYY). What is the best way to extract this date information from the input text? I was thinking of doing the following in the interface object: 1) checken-USTelligent Community 12https://community.appian.com/thread/75786?ContentTypeID=1Tue, 04 Aug 2020 08:38:49 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:d06b802c-b5f7-4c6a-97cc-af8e93d2478aStewart Burchell<p>So Roberta, why not add a separate field that is a date field component and get them to explicitly enter a date? There are so many issues with a field that &quot;might contain x/y/z&quot; since, by definition, the User can enter simply anything in any format...what&#39;s the context here?</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://community.appian.com/thread/75777?ContentTypeID=1Mon, 03 Aug 2020 17:06:35 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:85b44db8-f3be-427e-a1d4-590e824c3076Mike Schmitt<p>If you can use the RegEx Functions plug-in, this might be a good place to try using the matching functionality it provides, depending on how much other junk the incoming text might have.&nbsp; If you expect it to be pretty much just mm/dd/yyyy though, you might just try wrapping it with &quot;todate()&quot; or something else as simple as that.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>