Replace item.title in yahoo pipes with regex

Question

In Yahoo Pipes, titles of feed'items :

• some words 23 january 2012 some words
• some words 3 february 2012 some words
• some words 04 july 2012 some words

I want to replace them by

• 23 january 2012
• 3 february 2012
• 04 july 2012

I use regex

replace item.title ^.+(\d{1,2}.+\d{4}) with $1

But i obtain

• 3 january 2012
• 3 february 2012
• 4 july 2012

I have no idea to solve my problem. If someone could help me. Thanks a lot

Answer 1

It looks like your first .+ is grabbing the first digit, because your capturing rule, \d{1,2} says grab 1 or two digits, and .+ can grab anything. Be more specific and put a \s+ before matching the digits.

Why not try:

.+\s+(\d{1,2}\s+\S+\s+\d{4})

Answer 2

try to simplify your regex, for example \d{1,2}.+\d{4}