Date Validation help?

[rabinski]

Gurus -

I need to strip out invlaid dates (eg leap years etc) -

Using this regex at the mo

if ($phone_num !~ /^[0-3][0-9]\/[0-1][0-9]\/[1-2][0-9][0-9][0-9]$/)

- This will not catch leap years or 39/16/2005 etc ...

Any help would be great chaps ....

Rab

 

[TrojanWarBlade]

Why not use Date::Manip?
All the hard work will have been done for you and it will be accurate and reliable.


Trojan.

 

[rabinski]

yeah looking at it now - it is a bit of a read tho ;@)

Thought there may be a quicker fix ...

 

[TrojanWarBlade]

Quicker is often not necessarily better.
Date manipulation is surprisingly complex and notoriously difficult to get right.
Look at the Y2K problem as a simple example!


Trojan.