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	                Comment: 
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	                Comment: 
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	                Name: www.GameGoldFactory.com
	                Date: 11/18/2012 10:12:51 PM
	                Comment: 
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	                Title: www.GameGoldFactory.com
	                Name: www.GameGoldFactory.com
	                Date: 11/18/2012 9:58:47 PM
	                Comment: 
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	                Title: www.GameGoldFactory.com
	                Name: www.GameGoldFactory.com
	                Date: 11/18/2012 9:57:01 PM
	                Comment: 
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	                Title: www.GameGoldFactory.com
	                Name: www.GameGoldFactory.com
	                Date: 11/18/2012 9:56:49 PM
	                Comment: 
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	                Title: Regular Expression for DD/MM/YYYY DD-MM-YYYY DD.MM.YYYY
	                Name: Beginner
	                Date: 10/11/2012 5:48:49 AM
	                Comment: 
Hi, I am looking for a regex to validate the date with the below criteria: 1) Format DD/MM/YYYY,DD.MM.YYYY,DD-MM-YYYY 2) Leap Year Validation 3) Month date validation (Example :Should not accept 31st for April, June, November..) Please help me on this. 
Thanks
 
                
                
            
                
	                Title: Expression in DD/MM/YYYY format
	                Name: Beginner
	                Date: 10/10/2012 9:20:25 AM
	                Comment: 
please provide date dd/mm/yyyy format. it should accept 30,31 days for respective months and also leap years. special condition is it should allow only present and future dates only. plz
Thanks in advance!
                
                
            
                
	                Title: Expression in DD/MM/YYYY format
	                Name: Beginner
	                Date: 10/10/2012 9:18:17 AM
	                Comment: 
please provide date dd/mm/yyyy format. it should accept 30,31 days for respective months and also leap years. special condition is it should allow only present and future dates only. plz
Thanks in advance!
                
                
            
                
	                Title: NIKE
	                Name: NIKE
	                Date: 2/27/2012 8:17:49 AM
	                Comment: 
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	                Title: NIKE
	                Name: NIKE
	                Date: 2/27/2012 8:17:03 AM
	                Comment: 
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	                Title: Expression in DD.MM.YYYY format
	                Name: Gopal
	                Date: 12/13/2011 6:08:52 AM
	                Comment: 
Hello Expert,
I need the expression for DD.MM.YYYY format.
Please provide.
Thanks a lot !!
                
                
            
                
	                Title: Expression in DD.MM.YYYY format
	                Name: Gopal
	                Date: 12/13/2011 6:04:56 AM
	                Comment: 
Hello Expert,
I need the expression for DD.MM.YYYY format.
Please provide.
Thanks a lot !!
                
                
            
                
	                Title: toseyr
	                Name: toseyr
	                Date: 12/2/2011 8:02:02 PM
	                Comment: 
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	                Title: Help with expression
	                Name: Satish P
	                Date: 11/9/2011 8:33:44 AM
	                Comment: 
Required regular expression format 
mm/dd
                
                
            
                
	                Title: Help with Expression
	                Name: Kwaku
	                Date: 8/9/2011 12:30:56 PM
	                Comment: 
Hi, 
I am so new to these stuff. I want to validate a textbox containing either alphabets or numbers or both.
i.e :  field should accept : numbers,alphabeths and alphanumeric . I need this to validate an ID field with no fixed format
minimun value for field=6
maximun value for field = 13
Thanks
                
                
            
                
	                Title: Regular expression for dd-MM-yyyy format
	                Name: Balwant Singh
	                Date: 3/12/2011 1:25:23 AM
	                Comment: 
Hi Budy!
I am looking for date format dd-MM-yyyy as indian style.
                
                
            
                
	                Title: Regular expression for dd-MM-yyyy format
	                Name: Balwant Singh
	                Date: 3/12/2011 1:24:23 AM
	                Comment: 
Hi Budy!
I am looking for date format dd-MM-yyyy as indian style.
                
                
            
                
	                Title: Regular Expression for MM/DD/YYY MM-DD-YYY MM.DD.YYYY
	                Name: sarath
	                Date: 2/1/2011 9:03:11 AM
	                Comment: 
Hi,
I am looking for a regex to validate the date with the below criteria:
1)	Format MM/DD/YYYY,MM.DD.YYYY,MM-DD-YYYY
2)	Leap Year Validation
3)	Month date validation (Example :Should not accept 31st for April, June, August..)
Please help me on this.
Thanks,
Sarath 
                
                
            
                
	                Title: Regular Expression for MM/DD/YYY MM-DD-YYY MM.DD.YYYY
	                Name: sarath
	                Date: 2/1/2011 9:00:16 AM
	                Comment: 
Hi,
I am looking for a regex to validate the date with the below criteria:
1)	Format MM/DD/YYYY,MM.DD.YYYY,MM-DD-YYYY
2)	Leap Year Validation
3)	Month date validation (Example :Should not accept 31st for April, June, August..)
Please help me on this.
Thanks,
Sarath 
                
                
            
                
	                Title: zzgg
	                Name: zg
	                Date: 11/24/2010 3:57:18 PM
	                Comment: 
This is a problem related to .php.  A string containing regular words.  I need to extract an array of occurrences of <#adjective#>, <#noun#>, etc. and convert them into a textfield input, whereas any occurrences of <#him/her#> should be convereted into a radio button.
Thanks.
                
                
            
                
	                Title: zzgg
	                Name: zg
	                Date: 11/24/2010 3:56:01 PM
	                Comment: 
This is a problem related to .php.  A string containing regular words.  I need to extract an array of occurrences of <#adjective#>, <#noun#>, etc. and convert them into a textfield input, whereas any occurrences of <#him/her#> should be convereted into a radio button.
Thanks.
                
                
            
                
	                Title: can u help me to write a expression to validate MMDDYY MMDDYYYY,MM/DD/YY,MM/DD/YYYY,MM-DD-YY,MM-DD-YYYY
	                Name: Rudra p Malla
	                Date: 3/3/2009 4:43:35 AM
	                Comment: 
can u help me to write a expression to validate MMDDYY MMDDYYYY,MM/DD/YY,MM/DD/YYYY,MM-DD-YY,MM-DD-YYYY
i:e
010209 ,01022009 i little bit modify ur script as follows 
^(?:(?:(?:0?[13578]|1[02])(\/|-|)31)\1|(?:(?:0?[13-9]|1[0-2])(\/|-|)(?:29|30)\2))(?:(?:1[6-9]|[2-9]\d)?\d{2})$|^(?:0?2(\/|-|)29\3(?:(?:(?:1[6-9]|[2-9]\d)?(?:0[48]|[2468][048]|[13579][26])|(?:(?:16|[2468][048]|[3579][26])00))))$|^(?:(?:0?[1-9])|(?:1[0-2]))(\/|-|)(?:0?[1-9]|1\d|2[0-8])\4(?:(?:1[6-9]|[2-9]\d)?\d{2})$
which help me to validate 01022009,01022009,
but it also validate 1212009 which should not.
as it represent todays either 1/21/2009 or 12/1/2009
i want only user should enter in the format as follows 12012009
please help me.
thankd and regards 
Rudra p Malla 
                
                
            
                
	                Title: HOW COME BACK REFERENCES ARE NEED FOR IT TO WORK
	                Name: lost on backreferences
	                Date: 1/4/2009 8:44:34 PM
	                Comment: 
How come the back references are needed for the expression to work? If the \1,\2 , \3 and so on if remove the expression doe not work? I thought when ?: is used no back referencing is done.
If someone can explain why the back references are needed for the expression to work please email me at [email protected]
^(?:(?:(?:0?[13578]|1[02])(\/|-|\.)31)\1|(?:(?:0?[1,3-9]|1[0-2])(\/|-|\.)(?:29|30)\2))(?:(?:1[6-9]|[2-9]\d)?\d{2})$|^(?:0?2(\/|-|\.)29\3(?:(?:(?:1[6-9]|[2-9]\d)?(?:0[48]|[2468][048]|[13579][26])|(?:(?:16|[2468][048]|[3579][26])00))))$|^(?:(?:0?[1-9])|(?:1[0-2]))(\/|-|\.)(?:0?[1-9]|1\d|2[0-8])\4(?:(?:1[6-9]|[2-9]\d)?\d{2})$
                
                
            
                
	                Title: Experssion for YYYY-MM-DD
	                Name: Leela
	                Date: 7/24/2008 9:41:13 AM
	                Comment: 
Hi,
I have a regular expression which gives me the date format in YYYY/MM/DD but it does not validate leap year and accepts a date like 2000/02/30
Can anyone help?
Regards,
Leela
                
                
            
                
	                Title: Add "/"
	                Name: Anoopj
	                Date: 11/20/2006 8:54:21 AM
	                Comment: 
it works fine for me after adding a "/" in begining and end,
thanks a lot 
                
                
            
                
	                Title: Re: Need help for yyyy format
	                Name: Michael Ash
	                Date: 12/21/2005 10:36:26 AM
	                Comment: 
See http://regexadvice.com/blogs/mash/archive/2004/06/17/309.aspx for alternate date formats
                
                
            
                
	                Title: Need help for yyyy format
	                Name: sandy
	                Date: 12/21/2005 1:29:22 AM
	                Comment: 
this Expression is working fine. but i need help for the forceful acceptance of 4 year digit. I tried the answer given below but its not working.
                
                
            
                
	                Title: SE
	                Name: Dave Crossman
	                Date: 8/9/2005 7:09:06 PM
	                Comment: 
The character class [1,3-9] should be [13-9]
                
                
            
                
	                Title: Re:  Regex checking date in (YYYY/MM/DD) format
	                Name: Michael Ash
	                Date: 6/13/2005 10:17:40 AM
	                Comment: 
Well I have posted yyyy/mm/dd format already. See
http://regexadvice.com/blogs/mash/archive/2004/06/17/309.aspx for more details on alternate formats.
                
                
            
                
	                Title: Regex checking date in (YYYY/MM/DD) format.
	                Name: Trivendra Gupta
	                Date: 6/13/2005 8:03:36 AM
	                Comment: 
Hi,
   I had tried to customize the given Regex to solve my requirment. Please try the following regex and let me know it there is any problem with this regex. You can mail me at [email protected].
^(?:(?:1[6-9]|[2-9]\d)?\d{2})(\/|-|\.)(?:(?:(?:0?[13578]|1[02])(\/|-|\.)31)|(?:(?:0?[1,3-9]|1[0-2])(\/|-|\.)(?:29|30)))$|^(?:(?:(?:(?:1[6-9]|[2-9]\d)?(?:0[48]|[2468][048]|[13579][26])|(?:(?:16|[2468][048]|[3579][26])00)))(\/|-|\.)0?2(\/|-|\.)29)$|^(?:(?:1[6-9]|[2-9]\d)?\d{2})(\/|-|\.)(?:(?:0?[1-9])|(?:1[0-2]))(\/|-|\.)(?:0?[1-9]|1\d|2[0-8])$
Thanks
Trivendra Gupta
India.
                
                
            
                
	                Title: RE:  C# Error "Unrecognized Escape Sequence"
	                Name: Michael Ash
	                Date: 6/7/2005 12:49:05 PM
	                Comment: 
It worked fine for me.  I just ran a test app with VS2005.
Did you forget to prefix the string defining the regex with the at sign? (@)
                
                
            
                
	                Title: C# Error "Unrecognized Escape Sequence"
	                Name: RHPT
	                Date: 6/6/2005 11:07:56 AM
	                Comment: 
Michael,
I am using Visual Studio 2005 (beta 2), and when I try to use this RE, it gives the error "Unrecognized Escape Sequence" error for "\". Do you have any idea why this is happening and if there is a workaround? Thanks.
                
                
            
                
	                Title: Mr.
	                Name: Frank
	                Date: 4/16/2005 5:59:34 PM
	                Comment: 
Exceptional.
                
                
            
                
	                Title: forget my .NET support? note
	                Name: adf
	                Date: 11/14/2003 6:48:37 PM
	                Comment: 
It works with the ^ and $.
                
                
            
                
	                Title: .NET support?
	                Name: adf
	                Date: 11/14/2003 6:45:24 PM
	                Comment: 
Michael,
If the ^ and $ are required for integrity, then can you suggest ways to work your RE in .NET?
thanks
-adf
                
                
            
                
	                Title: Thanks
	                Name: Kuljeet Sidhu
	                Date: 11/13/2003 3:11:06 PM
	                Comment: 
Hey Michael, 
   Thanks for the great expression.  Works like a charm in my validator.
K.
                
                
            
                
	                Title: VP
	                Name: Steve Donnelly
	                Date: 10/21/2003 10:12:00 AM
	                Comment: 
Works great for me in my VBScript function in ASP
                
                
            
                
	                Title: Re: It does not work for 01/01/0000
	                Name: Michael Ash
	                Date: 10/13/2003 4:20:58 PM
	                Comment: 
It's not suppose to. Works for the year 1600 to 9999
                
                
            
                
	                Title: It does not work for 01/01/0000
	                Name: Functoid
	                Date: 10/13/2003 4:15:16 PM
	                Comment: 
It does not work for 01/01/0000. can anybody suggest a solution. Thx
                
                
            
                
	                Title: Re: (?:
	                Name: Michael Ash
	                Date: 10/10/2003 10:01:45 AM
	                Comment: 
(?:) is a non-capturing group.
Normally expressions within parentheses are remembered by the RE as a subexpression.
These subexpression can later be backreferenced later in the RE.
The (?:)  doesn't capture the subexpression for later use.
In this particular expression the only subexpression I want to remember is the date separator after the months,
so I can check to make sure the same separator is used after the days.
                
                
            
                
	                Title: (?:
	                Name: Tim Johnson
	                Date: 10/10/2003 6:27:59 AM
	                Comment: 
I'm trying to understand the regexp, but can't find any docs describing (?: ...). What does this expression do? Thanks.
                
                
            
                
	                Title: re: problems with usage
	                Name: Michael Ash
	                Date: 10/8/2003 10:47:21 AM
	                Comment: 
Just a word of warning for those of you using this expression, 
who have removed the leading ^ and trailing $,
you may want to triple check the RE 
because without a boundry of some kind around it some bad values may slip thru
For example, while 13/31/2003 will fail this expression as it is written here,
without the ^ and $ it may pass because there is a valid date within the string (3/31/2003)
Basically the month and the year would have no upper bound.
If you removed the intermediate ^'s & $'s, the leap year validations could fail too. 
ex: 2/29/2003 would pass because 2/29/20 within the string is valid
                
                
            
                
	                Title: Re: DD/MM/yyyy
	                Name: Michael Ash
	                Date: 9/26/2003 5:26:31 PM
	                Comment: 
Click on patterns at the top of the page,
then click on the date/time tab.  
There are several there including a modifacton of this one.
                
                
            
                
	                Title: DD/MM/yyyy
	                Name: André
	                Date: 9/26/2003 4:46:05 PM
	                Comment: 
Hi,
I Need a Validator Expression for dd/mm/yyyy. Can Anyone Help me ?
Thanks!
André
                
                
            
                
	                Title: yyyy/mm/dd Format
	                Name: Swarnjit Sambhi
	                Date: 9/11/2003 12:55:40 PM
	                Comment: 
Thanks Michael!
I appreciate the quick response.
                
                
            
                
	                Title: RE: Need yyyy\mm\mm format instead
	                Name: Michael Ash
	                Date: 9/11/2003 11:19:15 AM
	                Comment: 
I've already posted a yyyy/mm/dd RE on this library.
http://www.regexlib.com/REDetails.aspx?regexp_id=190
Works the same as this one except for the format
                
                
            
                
	                Title: Need yyyy\mm\mm format instead
	                Name: Swarnjit Sambhi
	                Date: 9/10/2003 7:44:43 PM
	                Comment: 
Hi,
This regex is awesome but I can't seem to alter it to test for yyyy\mm\dd format instead.
Can anyone help?
Thanks!
                
                
            
                
	                Title: re: problems with usage
	                Name: Mark Roberts
	                Date: 9/2/2003 9:47:08 AM
	                Comment: 
William, 
I tried your suggestion (removing leading ^ and trailing $) and it seems to work for me as well.
Thanks for your help.
                
                
            
                
	                Title: problems with usage
	                Name: william newsom
	                Date: 8/30/2003 12:15:15 PM
	                Comment: 
i left out the beginning ^ and the ending $ and its seems to work.
                
                
            
                
	                Title: ASP.NET Validator Usage
	                Name: Mark Roberts
	                Date: 8/29/2003 10:59:31 AM
	                Comment: 
This RE is just what I'm looking for for bullet-proof date validation in an ASP.NET app I'm working on.
I tried pasting this RE into an ASP.NET regular expression validator and it seems to reject invalid AND valid dates.
Can anyone share any light on .NET differences?
Thanks
                
                
            
                
	                Title: Re: Agreeing about IE
	                Name: Michael Ash
	                Date: 8/18/2003 12:39:26 PM
	                Comment: 
I haven't had any problem with IE myself, so I'm not exactly sure why others are having problems.
I've used a few different RE testers to test it and they worked fine. 2/29/2003 was flagged no match.
For those having problems how are you implimenting the RE?  I was orginally using vbscript but modified it later for Java and javascript.  I'm fairly sure I was testing on IE v5 at first.
                
                
            
                
	                Title: Agreeing about IE
	                Name: Justin
	                Date: 8/17/2003 11:18:18 PM
	                Comment: 
I'm having the same IE problem as the guy above. 2/29/2003 doesn't get caught. However your regex works on this site's tester. Maybe there is a character limit in IE browsers?
Kudos to you for coming up with such a crazy regex. Interesting about the Gregorian calendar too.
                
                
            
                
	                Title: Re: Re: Every 00 is a leap year
	                Name: Yohan
	                Date: 8/12/2003 4:52:30 PM
	                Comment: 
Yep, you were right. I figured you were because you wrote this this complicated RE and I wondered how you could miss something that I thought was very obvious.
Nice job BTW: I've used your RE on several occasions.
                
                
            
                
	                Title: Re: Every 00 is a leap year
	                Name: Michael Ash
	                Date: 8/12/2003 9:51:43 AM
	                Comment: 
In reply to Yohan's comment:
Every year ending is 00 is not a leap year.
See http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/leap_years.html for more detail
The Rule 
According to the Gregorian calendar, which is the civil calendar in use today, years evenly divisible by 4 are leap years, with the exception of centurial years that are not evenly divisible by 400. Therefore, the years 1700, 1800, 1900 and 2100 are not leap years, but 1600, 2000, and 2400 are leap years.
This is what this RE is based on.
                
                
            
                
	                Title: Every 00 is a leap year...
	                Name: Yohan
	                Date: 8/11/2003 2:51:29 PM
	                Comment: 
In reply to Michael Ash's comment:
Every year ending with 00 is a leap year. Leap years happen every four years, so therfore every 100 years (25 leap years) it will be a leap year again.
                
                
            
                
	                Title: Re: Year 2000 leap year problem for two digit year
	                Name: Michael Ash
	                Date: 8/4/2003 5:32:10 PM
	                Comment: 
As stated in the description Feb 29 will not validate for the year 00.  That is intentional since this RE was designed with the idea of being able to used until the year 9999 and not all years ending in 00 are leap years. 4 digit years validate for every century within the given range, however.
                
                
            
                
	                Title: userwx
	                Name: wxx
	                Date: 8/4/2003 5:18:42 AM
	                Comment: 
some date can not be  used
                
                
            
                
	                Title: Time
	                Name: Dan
	                Date: 6/17/2003 3:58:42 PM
	                Comment: 
Would be nice if this was altered to validate for time as well.
                
                
            
                
	                Title: 4 year digits
	                Name: D
	                Date: 6/5/2003 10:49:51 AM
	                Comment: 
i believe you can remove the `?' at the 108th character and very last `?' to force it to accept only 4 year dates, although i'd leave this one alone run run an additional check before/after for 4 year dates.  It is a beast to understand! i read it by breaking it up into its principle parts, at the three `$'  even then it still took about 5 minutes, hehe, my screensaver kicked in... time to go rub my eyes.
                
                
            
                
	                Title: Force 4 year validations
	                Name: C.S. Lewis
	                Date: 6/4/2003 1:46:59 PM
	                Comment: 
I would like to see this reg exp modified slightly to accept only 4 digit years. This one is a beast to understand.
                
                
            
                
	                Title: Year 2000 leap year problem for two digit year
	                Name: Freddie G. Meyer
	                Date: 4/30/2003 2:10:19 PM
	                Comment: 
Year 2000 is a leap year, and 2/29/2000 does validate.  But 2/29/00 does not validate.
                
                
            
                
	                Title: IE5.0
	                Name: Jip Moors
	                Date: 4/12/2003 4:56:27 AM
	                Comment: 
Its seems to work in any browser .. except Internet Exploder 5.0.