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Date::Extract - extract probable dates from strings

=head1 MOTIVATION

There are already a few modules for getting a date out of a string.
L<DateTime::Format::Natural> should be your first choice. There's also
L<Time::ParseDate> which fits many formats. Finally, you can coerce
L<Date::Manip> to do your bidding.

But I needed something that will take an arbitrary block of text, search it for
something that looks like a date string, and extract it. This module fills this
niche. 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 L<DateTime> object with the year
set to 2019. This is what your users would probably expect.

=head1 METHODS

=head2 new PARAMHASH => C<Date::Extract>

=head3 arguments

=over 4