[thelist] validating date strings with javascript

[Tom Dell'Aringa]

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> Hershel Robinson <hershelr at netvision.net.il> wrote:
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> Why not create a Date object and set it to the inputted date; then
> you can have JS test for you if it's a valid date as well.
> If it is valid, then you can extract the month, day and year and
> append them together in any format you like.
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Hm, well the problem is if they don't input it correctly - say they
input 1/1/2000 - I still haven't taken care of the 'leading zero'
problem, so I still don't know what the date is. For all I know its
1/12/000 and they forgot the 2 - especially if they didn't enter any
delimeters ala 112000...

Tom



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