Thank you all. You are the wizards of Regular Expressions! Both of these solutions work great. However, to me, a perfect solution would be a combination of the two, A Regular Expression that accept 05/01/2011 05-01-2011 05.01.2011 ... and also 11/9/2011 5/10/2011 ... as a date. Thank you very much. All the best Paolo Mazza