I've been thinking about that too. I think i'll just wrap the createdate in a try/catch and forget IsValid. I'm not sure what the point is of creating such a function if it's never going to be able to be given an invalid date.
Anyway thanks for your help everyone. I'll go the try/catch route. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com ColdFusion, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Adam Chapman <a...@portplus.com> wrote: > > I second Brett's method.. I do the same thang myself. > > Regards, > Adam > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Brett Payne-Rhodes [mailto:bret...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 3:17 PM > To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com > Subject: [cfaussie] Re: Validating dates ... what's the trick? > > > I could never get a reliable result from the various 'parsedate' > functions... > > In the end I wrote my own function to create dates from strings. It > looks for a variety of delimiters then extracts day, month, year; or > month, year, day; or even year, month, day; depending on how it was set > up. > > The trick at the end is to use createDate(year, month, day) wrapped up > in a try/catch. If it throws an error then you have a problem. > > hth > > Brett > B) > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cfaussie+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
