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Date-Validation with mm/dd/yyyy or mmddyyyy or mm-dd-yyyy or m/d/yyyy

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Regular Expression
ECMAScript (JavaScript)

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

Date Validation with leap year handling, & it takes care of date validation in the format like :mm/dd/yyyy or mmddyyyy or mm-dd-yyyy or m/d/yyyy or m-d-yyyy.

12/01/1986 02/29/2016 02/29/2015 13/31/1986 12/31/1980 1/32/2015 1/31/2015

01012016 01/01/2016 1/1/2016 1/1/16 01/01/16 01-01-2016 1-1-2016 1-1-16 01-01-16

Submitted by Ashish - 9 years ago