more date validation

Hi coud someone give me an example to validate a date.

dd/mm/yyyy and to make sure that if any other characters are typed in apart from that date format an input validation occurs.

so it needs to check for the dd then for a / then for the mm then a / then yyyy.

Could someone please help me thanks

Read dd. Read /. Read mm. Read /. Read yyyy. If at the point in any of those you don't have what you want, stop checking.


Quzah.

thanks fo that.. could you please give me an example im hopeless at c. lol id really appreciate it.

We just did this already
http://cboard.cprogramming.com/showthread.php?t=68445
Try doing a bit of reading around what you've been shown already.

im kind of having problems with it im getting a token error.
thats my function

Code:

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void ageCalculator()
{
 char buff[BUFSIZ];
 
 int m,d,y;
 struct tm t;
 time_t now;
 
 

 time(&now);
 t = *localtime(&now);
 strftime(buff, sizeof(buff), "%Y//%m//%y", &t);

 
 printf("Please enter your date of birth in (yyyy//mm/dd) format\n");

  if ( fgets( buff, BUFSIZ, stdin ) != NULL ) {
    int y,m,d;
    if ( sscanf( buff, "%d/%d/%d", &d, &m, &y ) == 3 ) {
      /* got 3 ints */
      if ( d >= 1 && d <= 31 ) /* etc etc */
    }
  }
 
 
 printf("The current date is %s\n",buff);
 

 
}

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