Behave even more like 1.8, where datetime strings can have any kind o…

…f characters

lib/american_date.rb

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
   # Modify parsing methods to handle american date format correctly.
   class << Date
     # American date format detected by the library.
-    AMERICAN_DATE_RE = %r_\b(\d{1,2})/(\d{1,2})/(\d{4}|\d{2})\b_.freeze
+    AMERICAN_DATE_RE = %r_(\d{1,2})/(\d{1,2})/(\d{4}|\d{2})_.freeze
 
     # Alias for stdlib Date._parse
     alias _parse_without_american_date _parse

spec/american_date_spec.rb

@@ -30,6 +30,10 @@
   specify "should ignore preceding weekday" do
     Date.parse('Day 01/02/2003').should == Date.new(2003, 1, 2)
   end
+
+  specify "should work just like 1.8 does" do
+    Date.parse('10:20:30something01/02/2003else').should == Date.new(2003, 1, 2)
+  end
 end
 
 describe "DateTime.parse" do
@@ -69,6 +73,11 @@
   specify "should work with times and weekdays" do
     DateTime.parse('Day 01/02/2003 10:20:30').should == DateTime.new(2003, 1, 2, 10, 20, 30)
   end
+
+  specify "should work just like 1.8 does" do
+    DateTime.parse('10:20:30something01/02/2003else').should == DateTime.new(2003, 1, 2, 10, 20, 30)
+  end
+
 end
 
 describe "Time.parse" do
@@ -115,6 +124,10 @@
   specify "should work with time first and date second and weekday in the middle" do
     Time.parse('10:20:30 Thu 01/02/2003').should == Time.local(2003, 1, 2, 10, 20, 30)
   end
+
+  specify "should work just like 1.8 does" do
+    Time.parse('10:20:30something01/02/2003else').should == Time.local(2003, 1, 2, 10, 20, 30)
+  end
 end
 
 describe "Date._parse" do