Regular Expression - date parser problem

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September 26th, 2002, 05:38 AM

tiago251

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Regular Expression - date parser problem

Hi all,

I use the following regular expression to parse a date:

Code:

[0-9][0-9]{0,1}.{1}[0-9][0-9]{0,1}.{1}[0-9]{4}

This should validate all dates like this:
10.8.2002
9.12.1998

But if I enter this date:
14.0352001
or
14.3a2001
it validates it too, I don't know why!

Any solution? Any parser proposition?
Thanks a lot!
::tiago

September 27th, 2002, 02:00 AM

bricker42

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In regex the period ( . ) means "any character". Try this:

Code:

[0-9]{1,2}\\.[0-9]{1,2}\\.[0-9]{4}

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