Hi Monks,
I have a code that takes some input from the user on a specific date, but I am kind of lost when the user input is an invalid date like, 2005-02-31, my code crashes because I am using:

use Date::Calc qw(Delta_Days);

My question is on this part of code I have here, how can a trap the error efficiently before it gets to the Delta_days module.
Here is where the problem is:
while (<OLD>) {
    
my $delta_days;
my ($line_year, $line_mon, $line_day) = /(\d{4})-(\d{1,2})-(\d{1,2})/;
+ 
$delta_days = Delta_Days($line_year,$line_mon,$line_day,$yearto,$month
+to,$dayto);

    next if $delta_days > 0;
    print NEW $_;
    
}

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Is got to be a way to prevent weird dates to come and crash my program.
Thanks a lot!!!!

In reply to Trapping Error - Delta_Days by Anonymous Monk

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