Hi, Am Madhu and am new to Perl programming. I was trying to write a simple script to validate valid date. Though it works for some input data, it again fails for some data as below.

#!/usr/bin/perl

print ("Enter the date in dd-mm-yy format : ") ;
$date = <STDIN> ;
chomp ($date) ;

while ($date ne "") {
        if ($date =~ /[1-31]-[1-12]-[1-99]/) {
            print("You have entered valid data \n") ;
        } else {
            print ("You have entered invalid data \n") ;
        }
        $date = <STDIN> ; chomp($date) ;
}

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The above script works fine for input data like 2-2-2 but fails for 3-3-3. Please let me understand, if I am doing something wrong here. Thanks Madhu

In reply to Script to validate date fails by madhum21

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