RegEx question

Dar Scott dsc at swcp.com
Sat Apr 10 02:58:31 EDT 2004


On Friday, April 9, 2004, at 06:34 AM, Yves COPPE wrote:

> 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
>
> doesn't give the good effect

This works for me with your original examples.

Might your data sometimes have spaces or LF at the start or end?  The  
regex will need to account for that.

Dar Scott



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