There are probably modules on CPAN that will do that, there are a gazillion
of Date modules. However, one option is to just wrap the $RptDate statement
in an eval...
eval {
$RptDate = UnixDate($strDate, "%m/%d/%y");
}
now $@ should be the error result.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Rohrssen
To: Perl Beginners
Sent: 8/29/2001 7:55 AM
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."
Ron
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