On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Eric Dorsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Greetings,I have a program where I ask a user to enter a date in format > YYYY-MM-DD, and get a string like: '2008-10-25' > > Can anyone tell me how I would verify this is a real date before allowing > it to be passed on to the next part of the program? > I guess it depends on what your definition of "real date" is... Should the year fall in a certain range? How about the month and day? Are you going to require - between each element? Do you know how to split a string and convert the elements to integers? That should give you some clues to your solution... HTH, Wayne
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