You could do regular expression field validation. That is, client-side (javascript), build a regular expression object that finds a match for many formats and run the test function on the input string. If true, a match was found, and hence a legal date. The downside is that if you have many date formats, your regular expression could get pretty ugly. Here's the appropriate documentation for IE jscript. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/jscript7/html/jsjsgrpregexpsyntax.asp
-----Original Message----- From: Charles P. Killmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 1:17 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Date parsing I have an object with a TimeStamp member. This will be populated by users of a website and entered into a database. My problem is, I would like to allow the users to enter the date in a number of formats. Does anyone have any recommendations aside from multiple try catch blocks each trying to parse the given date with a different expected format? Thanks you for any help, Charles Killmer --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
