is a date broke?

[Jim Ault]

I guess I would start with a couple assumptions:

filter with "*/*/*" --> is not empty

collect a string that contains only the valid date chars "/-0123456789"

decide if spaces end the loop (eg word 1, 2, 3)
--perhaps repeat for each word WRD
--until at least "d/d/dd" was found, then exit repeat

or
replace "-" with "/" in input
?? replace " " with empty in input
set the itemdel to "/"
check word -1 of item 1 of input
try 
  put word -1 of item 1 of input * 1 into mmm
 catch
  answer "invalid month entry"
  exit to top
end try
try
  put word 1 of item 3 of input * 1 into yyy

catch
  answer "invalid year entry"
  exit to top

end try

etc.... depends on what you will allow, and also consider European date
order.

Jim Ault
Las Vegas


On 5/1/07 2:09 PM, "Chipp Walters" <chipp at chipp.com> wrote:

> Thanks Jim,
> I don't see anything there which can help me:
> 
> If I try the numericDate function:
> put numericDate("01/01/01 hello dog")
> I get:
> 01/01/01 hello dog00
> 
> Any other ideas?
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