Try this
<cfset foodate = createdate(2008, 4, 1) />
<cfif foodate lt now()>
This is in the past
<cfelse>
This is not in the past
</cfif>
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Imperial, Robert
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
>
>
> I realize this is probably elementary for most of you but I'm not seeing
> the solution I need for this. I have 2 dates being passed from a form in
> this format 07/10/2008 and I am trying to check to see if these dates
> have passed today's date in Coldfusion. Not having much success with it
> at this point and any help would be greatly appreciated. I have tried
> the following by stripping out everything that's not numeric, but of
> course that won't work, but it was a nice exercise in using replace J
> TIA
>
>
>
> <cfset ThisDate = now()>
>
> <cfset TheDate = DateFormat(ThisDate, 'mm/dd/yyyy') />
>
> <cfset justThisNumber = rereplace(TheDate,"[^[:digit:]]*","","all")>
>
>
>
> <cfset justThatNumber =
> rereplace(form.fromDate,"[^[:digit:]]*","","all")>
>
>
>
> <cfset justTheOtherNumber =
> rereplace(form.toDate,"[^[:digit:]]*","","all")>
>
>
>
> <cfif justThatNumber LT justThisNumber OR justTheOtherNumber LT
> justThisNumber>
>
> <script>
>
> alert("The from or to date you entered has already passed,
> please enter a new date.");
>
> history.back();
>
> </script>
>
> <cfelse>
>
>
>
> Bob
>
>
>
>
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