regex: validate european date format with multiple separators

Question

I want to validate european date formats like \"10.02.2012\" or \"10-02-2012\". Therefore I created the following regex:

/\\d[0-9]{2}(.|-)\\d[0-9]{2}(.|-)\\d         


        

Answer 1

ok I see your problem...

/\d[0-9]{2}(.|-)\d[0-9]{2}(.|-)\d[0-9]{4}/

is redundant, in that \d is the same as [0-9], so actually here you are matching for 3 digits not 2. Try

/\d{2}(\.|-)\d{2}(\.|-)\d{4}/

or

/[0-9]{2}(\.|-)[0-9]{2}(\.|-)[0-9]{4}/

but don't use both