Re: checking for valid date

[planetscape]

Arguably the Wrong Way^(TM) to do it... but it is possible to validate dates using regexes.

I mention this not to encourage such (ab)use, but simply as one example (of many) of things that make my jaw hit the floor, followed by: "You can do that?!"

So, for curiosity's sake only, I submit the following:

• Date Validation using just a regex
• Validating date
• date regex
• Numeric Date Validation
• Valid date in regex only
• regex-matching the date
• Date Range Parsing

You may also wish to have a look at what Regexp::Common can do for you. And if, for some reason, the oftimes pathological regexes illustrated above aren't enough for you, there's also the Regular Expression Library - Dates and Times Category. ;-)

HTH,