Problem with regular expression for checking date

Ruby
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hi,

I checking the validation of date here as

a=~/^(0[1-9]|1[012])//\d\d$/

It’s working fine, But when I give FEB-30 It’s accepting because in the
above expression it’s not restricted. So How do I impose the condition
in such a way that It would block for FEB-30 as well?

2

Wouldn’t it be more effective to use Date.parse to check for valid
dates? Regular Expressions for date checking are unreliable at best
since they’re more about patterns than actual values.

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On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Raja gopalan [email protected]
wrote:

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Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Don’t forget about June 31, April 31, etc.
Also, Feb. 29, 2015, etc.

Harry

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Hi Joel P.
ohhhhhhhhhhh yes, I haven’t thought of that. Thank you very much.

hi Harry
yes sure.

RAJ