Why not provide the admin with a drop down of possible date format options? Choose the 10 or 15 most likely to be used for example.
That way you have absolute control of the string that is passed to the dateFormat() function while still providing the admin with a choice of date formats. Doesn't answer the regex question but I wanted to offer an additional strategy which could possibly save you some time and frustration. Chris -----Original Message----- From: Jeff D. Chastain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 10:28 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RegEx Expression Rather than my fighting this all afternoon, I figured somebody might know regular expressions better than I and be able to come up with a quick solution. I have an app where the system admin needs to be able to specify a custom date string that will then be fed into the dateFormat() function. The sys admin has the option to use a combination of spaces, special characters, d, m, y, etc. to build this date string - i.e. anything allowed for the standard dateFormat() function. I need to somehow validate their input string before I give it to the dateFormat() function though. Anybody got a quick regex solution to validate this string - or any other suggestions? Thanks -- Jeff ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm
