From: 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>
Date: 2009-09-08T01:32:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Date & time validation

Ne Scripter wrote:
> Just an update of where I am. This is what I have
> 
> if date =~ (/\d{4}\/\d{2}\/\d{2}/)
>   puts date
> else
>   date = (Date.strptime(date, "%Y/%m/%d"))
> end
> 
> This works to an extent but does not deal with a string which contains a 
> valid date but still invalid data like so
> 
> 2009/09/07 12:12:12
> 
> This would be passed as valid when it is not only a string containing 
> yyyy/mm/dd.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks a lot
> 

Look at the regex's in all the following examples.  How do they differ
from your regex?

>> Robert Klemme wrote:
>>> 2009/9/1 Brian Candler <b.candler@pobox.com>:
>>>> Max Williams wrote:
>>>>>/^\d{4}\/\d{2}\/\d{2}$/) 
>>>>
>>>> Beware: use
>>>>
>>>> /\A\d{4}\/\d{2}\/\d{2}\z/
>>>>
>>> %r{\A(\d{4})/(\d{2})/(\d{2})\z} 

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