Re: checking for valid date

[davidrw]

for completeness, here's a Date::Calc solution:

use Date::Calc qw/check_date/;
my @date =  $yyyymmdd =~ /^(\d{4})(\d{2})(\d{2})$/;
die "ERROR: bad date '$yyymmdd'" unless check_date(@date);
printf "Valid (y,m,d)=(%d,%d,%d)\n", @date;