While I have been trying to figure out how to handle date validation, I have come to decide that regex isnt the answer and I just need a simple date validation script. I could use a module, but all the date validation modules that people have suggested required a small list of extra modules to install. Me being in-experienced with installing modules on a server I don't want to screw up doesn't help either. However, someone did suggest to me that "Time::Local" was a good easy "core" way to validate dates, but I haven't been able to find an example of how to go about doing that using Time::Local. If anyone has any past experience to making a quick validation script, that would be very helpful.

Basically all the script needs to do is accept input from variable $userdate and validate whether or not its valid. If its valid, great, do nothing, if its not valid set an error variable.

I haven't gotten anything to work using Time::Local so I'm sorry I can't show any good working code that could be edited.

In reply to Simple Date Validation by Trihedralguy

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