[RESOLVED] compare a string with a format (mask)

[Ali_baba]

Hello,

I need to compare the string with format dd/mm/yyyy. How can I do that?
I have this code but I guess that I am making a mistake somewhere.

if ($datevisit !="" && $datevisit != sscanf($datevisit, "dd/dd/dddd" ))

Can somebody please help me?

[laserlight]

What do you mean by "compare the string with format dd/mm/yyyy"?

[Ali_baba]

This is actually a date. As you know that dates in PHP are YYYY-MM-DD format.
For the sake of user display, I change YYYY-MM-DD to DD/MM/YYYY. Now, here it is possible that a user might enter ddmmyyyy (without any seperator). So I need to compare that input with the format (dd/mm/yyyy).

If the format is incorrect then a error should be generated 🙂

[Ali_baba]

solved.

I need to use regular expressions. 🙂