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Aug 26, 2003, 4:32 AM

Andy

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Aug 26, 2003, 4:32 AM

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Javascript: validate a date field?

Hi. I know its possible to do date validating via PHP/Perl, but I would rather do this with Javascritp. Does anyone know how I could check the validity of a date field, in the format of;

03-02-2005

TIA.

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Aug 26, 2003, 5:42 AM

Wil

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Aug 26, 2003, 5:42 AM

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I'm sure Google knows the answer ...

http://www.google.com/...e=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

Interesting results:

http://www.google.com/...1623.html&e=7385

http://javascript.internet.com/...s/validate-date.html

- wil

Aug 26, 2003, 5:55 AM

Andy

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Aug 26, 2003, 5:55 AM

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Ah... didn't see them. I did a search on google, but the results used some *really* complex javascript... withabout 5 routines,and loads of stuff I didn't understand...To top it all off, it wasn't in the right format either Wink

I'll have a play with the 2nd link you provided. It looks like it will work a charm :)

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Aug 26, 2003, 11:49 AM

Watts

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Aug 26, 2003, 11:49 AM

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Check out the one Wil mentioned on javascript.internet.com it will let you set the format in several different ways. The one attached below comes from the same place but uses slashes "/" between the dates and does the formatting as you type - I've used it a lot, it really cool.

Aug 26, 2003, 11:54 AM

Andy

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Aug 26, 2003, 11:54 AM

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Thanks.

I ended up just writing a bit of simple code myself... with some regex...

like;

^(01|02|03|04|05|06|07|08|09|10..etc|)\-(01|02|03|04|05|06|07|08|09|10|11|12|)\-(2003|2004|2005|2006|2007)$

Seems to be working ok Smile

Cheers

Andy (mod)
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