NAME¶
CGI::ValidOp::Check::date - CGI::ValidOp::Check module to check if input looks
like a date.
DESCRIPTION¶
- iso
- Checks for ISO 8601 compliance: YYYY-MM-DD. Returns date in compliant
format, zero-padded if necessary.
- american
- Checks that the date is a standard American mm/dd/yyyy or mm-dd-yyyy date.
Insists on 4 digit years. Leading zeros for month and day are optional.
Returns date in ISO format with leading zeros.
This allows the application to handle dates in a single, consistent format.
The presentation layer can then concern itself with what format dates need
to be displayed in.
- general
- Checks that the date is either iso or american format. Returns iso
format.
AUTHOR¶
Randall Hansen <legless@cpan.org> Joshua Partlow
<jpartlow@opensourcery.com>
COPYRIGHT¶
Copyright (c) 2003-2006 Randall Hansen. All rights reserved.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as Perl itself.
See
http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html