Re: Numeric Date Validation

Here are some initial questions I had:

Will you be able to know the date format before parsing it? (Get the format from the user or a config file?) Or do you want to determine the format from the number?
Is there an expected range of valid dates? If it can be anything, then how do you want to handle cases where a single eight-digit number can be parsed into more than one valid date?

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Re: Re: Numeric Date Validation by booter (Novice) on Sep 30, 2003 at 15:41 UTC
Hi, The date format can be one of the following yyyymmdd yyyyddmm yymmdd yyddmm ddmmyyyy mmddyyyy ddmmyy mmddyy In terms of range, the date can fall anywhere beween the present date (ie. 20030930, or is that 030930....see the difficulty?), and the most earliest date accepted, which is Jan 1st, 1900, so 19000101. Since a numberic cannot start with 0, this date cannot be represented by droping the century indicator (ie 19xx), so 000101 is not accepted. This is a bit difficult to implement as a numberic. Let me know if you have any ideas. Thanks for your feedback.	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Numeric Date Validation by menolly (Hermit) on Sep 30, 2003 at 17:01 UTC
20030102 -- January 2nd, or February 1st? Does it matter for your application?	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Re: Numeric Date Validation by booter (Novice) on Sep 30, 2003 at 18:09 UTC
Hello, No, it doesn't matter what the actual date is, as long as it is a VALID date, so it could be January 2nd, or February 1st.	[reply]