Tony:

It's unbelievable! I'm losing my MiNd!

hehehe... I know what your saying...

(And no I'm not selling furniture or used cars 8)

I've spent the last 2 hours trying to find the answer to what I thought was a simple question.

What is the simplest way to validate a form input date in the syntax of MM/DD/YYYY?

Does it matter if it is in MM/DD/YYYY? As long as it is a valid date, you can convert it to a DateTime object and display it however you want to. See code sample below...

I was thinking a simple regular expression would be ideal but I found no reference suggesting that regexp's are supported in DTML and you cannot import the regexp object in a Python script without creating a custom product/script and that seems too convoluted so that leads me to believe that there must be another way that I just haven't found yet.

If you have a suggestion please let me know

Try this code sample: --------------------------------------------------------- <dtml-let gooddateSTR="'02/04/2001'" baddateSTR="'02/2a/2001'"> <dtml-try> <dtml-call expr="REQUEST.set('gooddateDATETIME',_.DateTime(gooddateSTR))"> <dtml-except> This date is invalid: <dtml-var gooddateSTR> <dtml-else> This date is good: <dtml-var gooddateDATETIME fmt="%m/%d/%Y"> </dtml-try> <BR><BR> <dtml-try> <dtml-call expr="REQUEST.set('baddateDATETIME',_.DateTime(baddateSTR))"> <dtml-except> This date is invalid: <dtml-var baddateSTR> <dtml-else> This date is good: <dtml-var baddateDATETIME fmt="%m/%d/%Y"> </dtml-try> </dtml-let> ------------------------------------------------------- HTW, Andrew Williams