Regular Expression to check Date in Actionscript 3

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Hi every one,

I am developing an application in Flash Builder 4.6 and in my Application I have TextInput field to get the date from user. I wanna get it in this format: yyyy/mm/dd like 2013/09/24
So, what should be my regular expression to check if a correct date in the above format is submitted or not??
my textinput field id is "date"

And I am getting its value in my actionscript function like this:

var d_date:String = new String;
d_date = date.text.toString();

Now I wanna check this d_date if it is in yyyy/mm/dd format?
Any suggestions??
Thanks for any help...

Posted 7-Oct-13 22:43pm

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2013-10-07T22:54:00

The best suggestion I can give is: don't use a regex for this.
By all means use a basic regex to check four-digits-slash-two-digits-slash-two-digits; thats simple:

^\d{4}/\d\d/\d\d$

But do not try to take it any further. It really isn't worth it: check and convert the actual date in code, it is a lot, lot simpler!