> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron Rohrssen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 8:55 AM
> To: Perl Beginners
> Subject: Validate a date
>
>
> I'm looking for some advice on better methods of validating a
> date from a
> text string.
>
> Currently, I am using Date::Manip like this: $RptDate =
> UnixDate($strDate,
> "%m/%d/%y"). If this fails the value of $RptDate will be "".
> That's okay.
> But, this also has the undesirable effect of dumping this
> message when empty
> strings are evaluated: "ERROR: Invalid arguments to ParseDateDelta."
You may want to update your Date::Manip; mine (5.40) doesn't
seem to raise such an error.
Or, you can wrap the UnixDate() call in an eval block:
eval { $date = UnixDate($s, '%m/%d/%y') };
undef $date if $@; # an error was raised, so date is invalid
see perldoc -f eval
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