jchd Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 This regex isn't ridiculous. It's simply plain wrong and on two points: 1) days 19 of every MM.YYYY are flagged invalid 2) any year multiple of 100 but not 400 is wrongly considered leap (e.g. 1900, 2100, 2200, ...). Fixing 1) is easy: test for 29.02 before the rest and extend the day range to include 19. Fixing 2) is more cumbersome (and is left as exercise to the reader). I highly recommend using (?x) to allow breaking down the expression into more easily understandable small parts. Rather that an error-prone one liner, I suggest writing it like that (this version not fixed!): expandcollapse popupFunc _Valid($val) Return StringRegExp($val, _ '(?x) ' & _ ; allow meaningless whitespaces in expression to ease reading ' ^ ' & _ ; start of subject string ' ( ' & _ ; all DD.MM dates except 29-02s in years [1900, 9999] ' ( ' & _ ; DD.MM not 29.02 ' ( ' & _ ; DD in [1, 9] ∪ [10, 18] ∪ [20, 28] but note that 19 is missing ' ( 0 [1-9] | [12] [0-8] ) ' & _ ; DD in this range ' \. ' & _ ; dot before MM ' ( 0 [1-9] | 1 [012] ) ' & _ ; MM in [1, 9] ∪ [10, 12], that is [1, 12] ' ) ' & _ ; end ' | ' & _ ; or ' ( ' & _ ; DD in [29, 31] and MM in {1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10, 12} ' ( 29 | 30 | 31 ) ' & _ ; DD in this range ' \. ' & _ ; dot before MM ' ( 0 [13578] | 1 [02] ) ' & _ ; MM in this range ' ) ' & _ ; end ' | ' & _ ; or ' ( ' & _ ; DD in [29, 30] and MM in {4, 6, 9, 11} ' ( 29 | 30 ) ' & _ ; DD in this range ' \. ' & _ ; dot before MM ' ( 0 [469] | 11 ) ' & _ ; MM in this range ' ) ' & _ ; end ' ) ' & _ ; end ' \. ' & _ ; dot before year ' ( 19 | [2-9] \d ) ' & _ ; 19th and [20..99]th centuries ' \d\d ' & _ ; year within century [0, 99] ' ) ' & _ ; ' | ' & _ ; or ' ( ' & _ ; all 29-02s in years [1900, 9999] ' 29 \. 02 \. ( 19 | [2-9] \d ) ' & _ ; 29.02 in 19th or [20, 99]th century ' ( 00 | 04 | 08 | 12 | 16 | 20 | 24 | 28 | ' & _ ; year ' 32 | 36 | 40 | 44 | 48 | 52 | 56 | 60 | ' & _ ; within ' 64 | 68 | 72 | 76 | 80 | 84 | 88 | 92 | ' & _ ; century ' 96 ) ' & _ ; but note that 1900 is wrongly considered leap ' ) ' & _ ; end ' $ ' _ ; end of subject string ) EndFunc This wonderful site allows debugging and testing regular expressions (many flavors available). An absolute must have in your bookmarks.Another excellent RegExp tutorial. Don't forget downloading your copy of up-to-date pcretest.exe and pcregrep.exe hereRegExp tutorial: enough to get startedPCRE v8.33 regexp documentation latest available release and currently implemented in AutoIt beta. SQLitespeed is another feature-rich premier SQLite manager (includes import/export). Well worth a try.SQLite Expert (freeware Personal Edition or payware Pro version) is a very useful SQLite database manager.An excellent eBook covering almost every aspect of SQLite3: a must-read for anyone doing serious work.SQL tutorial (covers "generic" SQL, but most of it applies to SQLite as well)A work-in-progress SQLite3 tutorial. Don't miss other LxyzTHW pages!SQLite official website with full documentation (may be newer than the SQLite library that comes standard with AutoIt) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jchd Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 (edited) Here's my try: expandcollapse popup#include <Date.au3> Local $dates = [ _ '19.03.2015', _ '32.03.2015', _ '29.02.2015', _ '29.02.1900', _ '29.02.2100', _ '29.02.2016', _ '29.02.2000', _ '31.12.2015' _ ] For $s In $dates ConsoleWrite($s & ' is ' & (_Valid($s) ? '' : 'in') & 'valid: ' & ((_Valid($s) = _IsThisValidDate($s)) ? 'true' : 'false') & @LF) Next Func _Valid($val) Return StringRegExp($val, _ '(?x) ' & _ ; allow meaningless whitespaces in expression to ease reading ' ^ ' & _ ; start of subject string ' ( ' & _ ; all 29-02s in years [1900, 9999] ' 29 \. 02 \. ( 19 | [2-9] \d ) ' & _ ; 29.02 in 19th or [20, 99]th century ' ( ' & _ ; but only for valid leap years ' (?<= 20 | 24 | 28 | 32 | 36 | 40 | 44 | ' & _ ; YYYY ≡ 0 (mod 400) are leap ' 48 | 52 | 56 | 60 | 64 | 68 | 72 | ' & _ ; otherwise YYYY ≡ 0 (mod 100) are not ' 76 | 80 | 84 | 88 | 92 | 96) 00 | ' & _ ; years 0 of centuries ≡ 0 (mod 400) ' 04 | 08 | 12 | 16 | 20 | 24 | 28 | 32 | ' & _ ; "normal" leap years ' 36 | 40 | 44 | 48 | 52 | 56 | 60 | 64 | ' & _ ; within ' 68 | 72 | 76 | 80 | 84 | 88 | 92 | 96 ) ' & _ ; any century ' ) ' & _ ; end ' | ' & _ ; or ' ( ' & _ ; all DD.MM dates except 29-02s in years [1900, 9999] ' ( ' & _ ; DD.MM not 29.02 ' ( ' & _ ; DD in [1, 9] ∪ [10, 19] ∪ [20, 28] ' ( 0 [1-9] | 1 [0-9] | 2 [0-8] ) ' & _ ; DD in this range ' \. ' & _ ; dot before MM ' ( 0 [1-9] | 1 [012] ) ' & _ ; MM in [1, 9] ∪ [10, 12], that is [1, 12] ' ) ' & _ ; end ' | ' & _ ; or ' ( ' & _ ; DD in [29, 31] and MM in {1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10, 12} ' ( 29 | 30 | 31 ) ' & _ ; DD in this range ' \. ' & _ ; dot before MM ' ( 0 [13578] | 1 [02] ) ' & _ ; MM in this range ' ) ' & _ ; end ' | ' & _ ; or ' ( ' & _ ; DD in [29, 30] and MM in {4, 6, 9, 11} ' ( 29 | 30 ) ' & _ ; DD in this range ' \. ' & _ ; dot before MM ' ( 0 [469] | 11 ) ' & _ ; MM in this range ' ) ' & _ ; end ' ) ' & _ ; end ' \. ' & _ ; dot before year ' ( 19 | [2-9] \d ) ' & _ ; 19th and [20..99]th centuries ' \d\d ' & _ ; year within century [0, 99] ' ) ' & _ ; ' $ ' _ ; end of subject string ) EndFunc ; much preferable Func _IsThisValidDate($str) Return _DateIsValid(StringRegExpReplace($str, "^(\d\d).(\d\d).(\d\d\d\d)$", "$3-$2-$1")) EndFunc Edited April 1, 2015 by jchd jguinch 1 This wonderful site allows debugging and testing regular expressions (many flavors available). An absolute must have in your bookmarks.Another excellent RegExp tutorial. Don't forget downloading your copy of up-to-date pcretest.exe and pcregrep.exe hereRegExp tutorial: enough to get startedPCRE v8.33 regexp documentation latest available release and currently implemented in AutoIt beta. SQLitespeed is another feature-rich premier SQLite manager (includes import/export). Well worth a try.SQLite Expert (freeware Personal Edition or payware Pro version) is a very useful SQLite database manager.An excellent eBook covering almost every aspect of SQLite3: a must-read for anyone doing serious work.SQL tutorial (covers "generic" SQL, but most of it applies to SQLite as well)A work-in-progress SQLite3 tutorial. Don't miss other LxyzTHW pages!SQLite official website with full documentation (may be newer than the SQLite library that comes standard with AutoIt) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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