At 03:16 PM 8/9/01 -0700, I wrote:
>At 05:43 PM 8/9/01 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>Hi ,
>>
>> Can anybody help me to write regex for date validation. The
>> validation criterion will be as below,
>>
>>with date in format dd/mm/yyyy &
>>
>>dd - should be less than 31
>
>Really? You're starting from 0?
>
>>mm - should be less than 12
>
>Ditto.
>
>>yyyy - no validation
>
>Not everything should be done with a single regex, even though anything
>can be. Here:
>
> $date =~ m#^(\d\d)/(\d\d)/(\d{4})$/ && $1 < 31 && $2 < 12
Rats, hit Send too soon. The delimiter is #, not /:
$date =~ m#^(\d\d)/(\d\d)/(\d{4})$# && $1 < 31 && $2 < 12;
# Now use date in ($1, $2, $3)
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Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies
http://www.perldebugged.com
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