From: Shashank Agarwal <shashank_hi@...>
Date: 2008-08-13T10:35:47+09:00
Subject: Re: regular expresson isue

Raj Singh wrote:
> I have following regular expression to parse time.
> 
> ([0-9]|0[0-9]|1[012]):([0-9]|0[0-9]|[1-5][0-9])\s*(am|pm)
> 

You want to match from the beginning of the string. So put a ^ before 
your statement -

^([0-9]|0[0-9]|1[012]):([0-9]|0[0-9]|[1-5][0-9])\s*(am|pm)
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