Source: libdate-extract-perl Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: Bastian Blank Section: perl Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13) Build-Depends-Indep: libclass-data-inheritable-perl , libdatetime-format-natural-perl , libtest-mocktime-hires-perl , perl Standards-Version: 4.6.2 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libdate-extract-perl Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libdate-extract-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/Date-Extract Rules-Requires-Root: no Package: libdate-extract-perl Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}, libclass-data-inheritable-perl, libdatetime-format-natural-perl Description: module to extract probable dates from strings Date::Extract extracts dates from arbitrary strings. It will take an arbitrary block of text, search it for something that looks like a date string, and build a DateTime object out of it. . By design it will produce few false positives. This means it will not catch nearly everything that looks like a date string. So if you have the string "do homework for class 2019" it won't return a DateTime object with the year set to 2019.