Regex to validate Date including leap year

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Can anybody help to validate dates(including leap year) using Regex in c#.net

REGARDS

Posted 11-Jan-12 20:15pm

Prashanth.P.Koppal

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Abhinav S · Accepted Answer · 2012-01-11T20:19:00

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You could use Regex expressions in conjuction with TryParse to get leap year validation.
Validation with Regular Expressions Made Simple[^] describes this approach in the Date validation section.

Posted 11-Jan-12 20:19pm

Abhinav S

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Prashanth.P.Koppal 12-Jan-12 2:38am

Hi Abhinav,
thanks for ur Reply,
Yes,i hv used the RE which consists of '\/',which is displaying error as 'unrecognized escape sequence'.

Amir Mahfoozi 29-Jan-12 4:27am

+5

Abhinav S 29-Jan-12 4:29am

Thank you Amir.