Check date format in JavaScript

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I would like to check if the date format is (dd/mm/yyyy) before the post is made in a JavaScript (jQuery).

How could I achieve that?

Try this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/276622/9885573 – FourCinnamon0 May 18 '20 at 13:30 — FourCinnamon0, May 18 '20 at 13:30

score 10 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:30

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You can use a regex:

/^\d{2}\/\d{2}\/\d{4}$/.test(str)

Of course this will not check for a valid date, but in that case you can always let your server-side code throw an error. If you want more client-side validation have a look at Javascript: how to validate dates in format MM-DD-YYYY?; it is easy to adapt to your format.

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answered May 17 '12 at 15:13

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Thanks it's working. I knew that regex could help but... damn that regex is hard to understand :P – Warface May 17 '12 at 15:16
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Oops, just fixed it - looks like nobody who upvoted it noticed that I forgot to escape the slashes. The regex is pretty easy btw: `^$` mark the start/end of the string, `\d` is a digit, `{2}` means that you want exactly two occurrences. – ThiefMaster May 17 '12 at 15:22

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 17 '12 at 15:13

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i think that would be very difficult, considering the ambiguity for cases where the date is less than equal to 12

answered May 17 '12 at 15:13

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