Regular Expressions 101

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Validate date

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Regular Expression
PCRE (PHP <7.3)

/
^(?:(?:31(\/|-|\.)(?:0?[13578]|1[02]))\1|(?:(?:29|30)(\/|-|\.)(?:0?[1,3-9]|1[0-2])\2))(?:(?:1[6-9]|[2-9]\d)?\d{2})$|^(?:29(\/|-|\.)0?2\3(?:(?:(?:1[6-9]|[2-9]\d)?(?:0[48]|[2468][048]|[13579][26])|(?:(?:16|[2468][048]|[3579][26])00))))$|^(?:0?[1-9]|1\d|2[0-8])(\/|-|\.)(?:(?:0?[1-9])|(?:1[0-2]))\4(?:(?:1[6-9]|[2-9]\d)?\d{2})$
/
g

Description

Validate date in format dd/mm/yyyy dd.mm.yyyy dd-mm-yyyy or dd/mm/yy dd.mm.yy dd-mm-yy

GetFrom -> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15491894/regex-to-validate-date-format-dd-mm-yyyy

Submitted by Dilakv - 9 years ago