I can't believe that I have not run up against this before with isDate()... I dynamically generate a form where I don't know the data type until run time. My only requirement is to format any dates.
I was doing a simple <cfif isDate(myDate)> then formatting it, until I realized that this string (09-262) was formatting as a date. It happens to be a cubicle number I know that isDate will pretty much return TRUE on any darned thing. Actually, most any date function will execute without failure on the above value. So the question is... How are you all validating dates reliably? I've checked cflib.org for something with no luck. Google doesn't return much. I'm adding a year range check to my code for now, which works, but doesn't seem too elegant. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:297225 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
