#!perl -w use strict; for my $y ( 1753 .. 9999 ) { for my $m ( 1 .. 12 ) { for my $d ( 1 .. 31 ) { my $date = sprintf "%04d/%02d/%02d", $y, $m, $d; if ( $date !~ m/^ ######################## # Year ([2-9]\d{3}|1[89]\d\d|17[6-9]\d|175[3-9]) \/ ##################### # Month (0[1-9]|1[0-2]) \/ ##################### # Day ( 0[1-9]|1\d|2[0-8]| # 01 - 28 (?<=(?:0[13578]|10|12)\/)(?:29|3[01])| # to 31 (?<=(?:0[469]|11)\/)(?:29|30)| # to 30 (?<=(?: (?:2[048]|3[26]|4[048]|5[26]|6[048]|7[26]|8[048]|9[26])00| \d\d(?:0[48]|1[26]|2[048]|3[26]|4[048]|5[26]|6[048]|7[26]|8[048]|9[26])\/02\/) )(?:29) # Leap year ) ######################## $/x ) { print "$date is invalid\n"; } # Else $1 == year, $2 == month, $3 == day }}}