[Israel.pm] RegEX Failure

[Yuval Yaari]

Took about a second to debug using the re pragma (and strict's help, 
because either I mis copy-pasted or your regex had errors in it).
my $string = '09/22/2006 17:59:18';
$string =~ 
m/(1[0-2]|0?[1-9])[\\\/](0?[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])[\\\/]((19|20)\d{2}) 
(0?[0-9]|[1][0-9]|[2][0-3]):(0?[0-9]|[1-5][\
0-9]):(0?[0-9]|[1-5][0-9])/;

(You only matched days-of-the-month that begin with either 1 or 3, not 2 :))
Seriously, all you had to do is: use re 'debug'; # I prefer debugcolor 
over debug, actually
And the output is pretty straightforward :-)

  ~Y

Georges EL OJAIMI wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This is a sample of valid time:
>
> 09/22/2006 17:59:18
>
> If the user enter 60 for minutes or seconds it is wrong! and so on...
>
> Best regards,
> Georges
>
>   
>> From: "Gabor Szabo" <szabgab at gmail.com>
>> Date: 2006/09/22 Fri PM 05:36:31 EAT
>> To: "Perl in Israel" <perl at perl.org.il>
>> Subject: Re: [Israel.pm] RegEX Failure
>>
>> On 9/22/06, Georges EL OJAIMI <g-ojaimi at cyberia.net.lb> wrote:
>>     
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I have a Regular expression that check for valid date/time insertion in a database. Sometimes this code verify abnormal time entry and other time fails.
>>> Can you please check what is wrong in it:
>>>
>>> (1[0-2]|0?[1-9])[\\-\\/](0?[1-9]|[1][0-9]|3[01])[\\-\\/]((19|20)\\d{2}) (0?[0-9]|[1][0-9]|[2][0-3]):(0?[0-9]|[1-5][0-9]):(0?[0-9]|[1-5][0-9])
>>>       
>> It is very hard to check such a regex, especially without examples of
>> input strins. Maybe you could share with us examples of strings that that
>> are recognized correctly and examples that are not recognized correctly.
>>
>> In any case you could start to split this up. Using /x option you can
>> add spaces and
>> comments.
>>
>> If I am not mistaken it would be like this:
>>
>> /
>> (1[0-2]|0?[1-9])                          # add comments here
>> [\\-\\/]
>> (0?[1-9]|[1][0-9]|3[01])
>> [\\-\\/]                                       # should this be [\\\/-] instead?
>> ((19|20)\\d{2})                            # why double escape \\d  ?
>> [ ]                                            # is this a real space?
>> (0?[0-9]|[1][0-9]|[2][0-3])
>> :
>> (0?[0-9]|[1-5][0-9])
>> :
>> (0?[0-9]|[1-5][0-9])
>> /x
>>
>> Gabor
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