regular expressions - HELP ..

[tanita]

Hi,

I want check birthdayinput. It just should be given in like this: '06.06.1970'.
I wrote a function:

function bad_birthday ($birthday){
//if(!eregi("([0-9]{1,2}).([0-9]{1,2}).([0-9]{4})",$birthday)){
//if(!eregi("([0-9]{1,2})..",$birthday)){
if(!eregi("[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]",$birthday)){
return 1;
}else{
return 0;
}
}

Calling:
if( ! ereg( "^{[:blank:]*$",} $shedateofbirth) ){
if(bad_email($shedateofbirth)){
mReturn(-1);
exit();
}
}

I worte other checks like this and it works.
I need help in rewording the regexpression..

2. How can I specify uppercase?
   This 'eregi("^{[A-Z]+$",$location)'} allowes lower case..

Thanks,

Tanja

[mithril]

Regarding #2, use ereg() instead of eregi() as eregi() is the incase insensitive version of ereg().

-geoff