From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-07-05T18:46:40+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:03821] Re: How to validate data?


In message "[ruby-talk:03818] How to validate data?"
    on 00/07/05, Jilani Khaldi <jilanik@tin.it> writes:
|I have a string containing a date, for example: myDate = "12/10/2000"
|Does Ruby have something comand like this: is_date(myDate) .. ?

def validdate?(date)
  if %r{\d\d/\d\d/\d\d\d\d} =~ date
    true
  else
    false
  end
end

myDate = "12/10/2000"
print validdate?(myDate), "\n"