dd/mm/yyyy regular expression

[mrp9090]

Does anybody have a regular expression to validate dates in format dd/mm/yyyy e.g. 09/05/2006?

Any help would be much appreciated!

 

[DotNetGnat]

(19|20)\d\d[- /.](0[1-9]|1[012])[- /.](0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])

-DNG

 

[DotNetGnat]

oops...try this:

(0[1-9]|1[012])[- /.](0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])[- /.](19|20)\d\d

-DNG

 

[mrp9090]

This one has as few flaws, first of all it is mm/dd instead of dd/mm which is easy enough to correct, but it doesn't prevent dates like 30/02 etc which are invalid. Is it possible to write a regex that does this? Maybe you would have to limit the years to 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, so that you can only accept these years and so that you can check for the leap year for these years.

 

[DotNetGnat]

try this link:

http://www.regular-expressions.info/dates.html

-DNG

 

[rac2]

DotNetGnat-

Great link. Thanks.