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Old 06-17-2008
jim mcnamara jim mcnamara is offline Forum Staff  
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note - that does not tell you if it is a valid date,:

Code:
>echo 999999 |grep -Ec '^[0-9]{6}$'
>1

Do you need to validate that it is a correct date or just numeric?