RegEx question

[Dar Scott]

On Saturday, April 10, 2004, at 01:22 AM, Yves COPPE wrote:

> 09/10/2004 is a valid date in French

> function CheckDate pDateToCheck
>   return  
> matchText(pDateToCheck,"\A([1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])/(0[1-9]|1[0-2])/([0- 
> 9][0-9][0-9][0-9])\z")
> end CheckDate
>
> it returns "false" and shoulf return "true"....

Oh, sorry, I was still concentrating on the \A and \z.

Maybe this will work:

function CheckDate pDateToCheck
   return  
matchText(pDateToCheck,"\A(0?[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])/(0[1-9]|1[0-2])/ 
([0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9])\z")
end CheckDate

It is not consistent yet as to whether the leading zero is optional.   
It is optional for the day of the month, but required for the month.

Dar Scott