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| From | Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> |
| Newsgroups | comp.databases.filemaker |
| Subject | Re: Validating an Input Date |
| Date | Sun, 12 Apr 2015 13:41:52 +1200 |
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In article <1m2q6cg.m2h1xwolhk40N%csampson@inetworld.net>, Charles H. Sampson <csampson@inetworld.net> wrote: > Christoph Kaufmann <clkaufmann@gmx.ch> wrote: > > Charles H. Sampson <csampson@inetworld.net> wrote: > > > > [FMP 8] > > > Is there any way in FMP (not advanced) to validate that a text string > > > contains a correct date? Such things as only digits and slashes and > > > values that are correct for month, day, and year? > > > > Use a date field to begin with? > > My experiments show that you can input anything into a date field. > Things blow up downstream when you try to use the bad "date". > > At present, the only user-friendly processing I'm doing is using TrimAll > with the last argument being 3, which squeezes out all blanks. > > > If it's just a string outside a date field, you might start with the > > filter function: > > > > input =? filter ( input ; "1234567890/." ) > > Thats a new one to me. What does the "=?" operator do? "=?" doesn't do anything - it's not a real operator. It's possibly a typo or a bad conversion of a non-standard ASCII character by a newsreader / newsserver. Helpful Harry :o)
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Validating an Input Date csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2015-04-11 03:12 -0700
Re: Validating an Input Date clkaufmann@gmx.ch (Christoph Kaufmann) - 2015-04-11 13:51 +0200
Re: Validating an Input Date csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2015-04-11 17:43 -0700
Re: Validating an Input Date Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> - 2015-04-12 13:41 +1200
Re: Validating an Input Date clkaufmann@gmx.ch (Christoph Kaufmann) - 2015-04-12 07:24 +0200
Re: Validating an Input Date Howard Schlossberg <howard@nospam.fmprosolutions.com> - 2015-04-11 12:12 -0700
Re: Validating an Input Date csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2015-04-11 17:43 -0700
Re: Validating an Input Date Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> - 2015-04-12 13:54 +1200
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