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How to validate the Dateformat Mask using ColdFusion?

How to check the date format using ColdFusion. I want to check that the user enters a date in the format yyyy-mm-dd. When a user enters a date in the format dd-mm-yyyy I want to show an error message. Is there any simple way to solve this?

Solution

  • Do you need to validate the date format from the server side? Here I've given a simple RegEx check to check the format and did some checks to validate.

    <cfset regex = '[0-2][0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-1][0-9]-[0-3][0-9]'>
<cfset myDate = '2006-12-39'>
<cfset MatchedDate = REMatchNoCase(regex, myDate)>
<cfif arrayLen(MatchedDate) AND isDate(myDate) AND MatchedDate[1] EQ myDate>
    Valid date
<cfelse>
    Invalid date
</cfif>