Find date and time pattern with preg_match
This is how you can find date and time pattern using preg_match
<?php
$str = "'Mplan LXTKLD01.Full Backup' was run on 10/4/2014 at 11:00:00 PM";
preg_match('/([0-9]+)\/([0-9]+)\/([0-9]+)/', $str, $out);
echo "<pre>";
print_r($out);
preg_match('/([0-9]+)\:([0-9]+)\:([0-9]+)/', $str, $out);
print_r($out);
echo "</pre>";
?>
Array
(
[0] => 10/4/2014
[1] => 10
[2] => 4
[3] => 2014
)
Array
(
[0] => 11:00:00
[1] => 11
[2] => 00
[3] => 00
)