Birth date regular expression?

[grippat]

I'm pretty inexperienced with regular expressions and I'm trying to come up with a regular expression that validates a birthday in the following format: 1969-12-01So far I haven't had any luck. Anyone know how to do it? Thanks!

[JamesB]

hey,Im kinda new to PHP, but I think this solution should work:

$validation = explode("-", 1969-12-01)if (strlen($validation[0]) != 4 ) {	print("Invalid Year Format");}elseif (($validation[1] < 0) || ($validation[1] > 12)) {	print ("Invalid Month Format");}elseif (($validation[2] < 0) || ($validation > 31)) {	print("Invalid Day Format");}

[grippat]

Thanks JamesB, but I think I got it with the regex solution, the following seems to do the trick:/^[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}$/

[justsomeguy]

Keep in mind that only validates the format, they can still enter an invalid date like 2000-99-99

[grippat]

Keep in mind that only validates the format, they can still enter an invalid date like 2000-99-99

Yeah. I was only looking to validate the format. I already have another piece of code checking for a valid date. Thanks though.