From: Justin Collins <collinsj@...>
Date: 2006-04-27T05:17:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Date-building regexes

Ashley Moran wrote:
> Hi
>
> Does anyone know of a regular expression for *building* a date?  That is one 
> that will match "3", "30", "30/", "30/0" (etc), but not "30/099" or 
> (ideally) "30/02"?  I've had a quick look into it and it seems pretty 
> complex, and I figured someone must have solved the problem before.
>
> Thanks
> Ashley
>
>   

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by 'building' a date, but have you 
looked at Date::parse? Does that do what you want?

http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Date.html#M001576

-Justin