Date ereg check problems

[jesus_hairdo]

I am trying to use ereg to check that dates are in a valid format, they should be in dd/mm/yyyy format, and be in 19xx or 20xx.

I am trying to use the following but with no luck:

ereg("(0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])/(1[0-2]|0[0-9])/(20[0-9]{2}|19[0-9]{2})", $HTTP_POST_VARS[main_member_dob], $date_bits)

Any suggestions ??

TIA

Jamie

[jesus_hairdo]

Sorry i have just spotted my error, this was in use in a function, but i had forgotten to substitute the $HTTP_POST_VARS[main_member_dob] for the $date var that the function uses.

DOH!
:rolleyes:

Jamie