Mark Byerley wrote:
>
> Good Morning/Afternoon to all
>
> I need some error checking (or rather field validation) within my script
> itself to ensure a date field coming across on a form is in the format of
> dd-mm-yyyy. I would rather not have to strip the field down to check the
> individual numbers and then put them back together again. Is there any
> "simple" type of error checking I can use in this instance? I appreciate the
> help.
> Thank you
> M~
How about pattern matching?
if ($theDate !~ m/\b(0[1-9]|[1-2][0-9]|3[01])-(0[1-9]|1[0-2])-\d{4}\b/)
{
reject ...
} else {
celebrate ...
}
Note that my year validation is somewhat less robust than my month and
day validation. :-)
Daniel
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