javascript - Extract date part from a string -

is there way extract date part string if other text not fixed:

input: "6/27/2014 - today" expected: "6/27/2014"

try following snippet:

var input = "6/27/2014 - today"; var expected = input.match(/\d{1,2}\/\d{1,2}\/\d{4}/)[0]; console.log(expected);