Hello:

I am a beginer with perl and just trying different things. Here is my question where all you unselfish experts may be able to help. I am going through a text file which has following contents:

2002-10-28 is today, 28-10-2001 was a year ago.

I want to verify that the date is valid. I wish to do the same for a few different formats such as:

Wednesday, November 6, 2002

November 6, 2002

06/11/02

06.11.2002

6 November 2002

6-Nov-02

(there are many more but once guided I think i should be able to get the rest) Once verified I want to output this (simply into an output txt file):

<date>2002-10-28</date> is today, <date>28-10-2001</date> was a year ago.

Hope someone will be able to help me with this. Thank you again to everyone for any advice or help.

Vince

In reply to Date Format Test and Taging. by uoperl

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