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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Basic date validation help Post 302276797 by mustaine85 on Wednesday 14th of January 2009 03:06:42 PM
Old 01-14-2009
Basic date validation help

Hi,
I've made a very basic date validation script, but the syntax of the until condtion is wrong, could someone have a quick look and correct it please?Smilie
Thanks for any help.

Code:
echo -n "Please enter your date of birth (dd-mm-yyyy): "
read dob
day=${dob:0:2} month=${dob:3:2} year=${dob:6:4}
date=`date +%d-%m-%Y`
cyear=${date:6:4}
until [[ $day -gt 0 -a $day -lt 32 ]] && [[ $month -gt -a $month -lt 13 ]] && [[ $year -gt 0 -a $year -le $cyear ]]
do
echo -n "Please enter your date of birth again (dd-mm-yyy): "
read dob
done

 

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SYNOPSIS
int gmmktime ([int $hour = gmdate("H")], [int $minute = gmdate("i")], [int $second = gmdate("s")], [int $month = gmdate("n")], [int $day = gmdate("j")], [int $year = gmdate("Y")], [int $is_dst = -1]) DESCRIPTION
Identical to mktime(3) except the passed parameters represents a GMT date. gmmktime(3) internally uses mktime(3) so only times valid in derived local time can be used. Like mktime(3), arguments may be left out in order from right to left, with any omitted arguments being set to the current corresponding GMT value. PARAMETERS
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+--------+---------------------------------------------------+ |Version | | | | | | | Description | | | | +--------+---------------------------------------------------+ | 7.0.0 | | | | | | | $is_dst parameter has been removed. | | | | | 5.1.0 | | | | | | | As of PHP 5.1.0, the $is_dst parameter became | | | deprecated. As a result, the new timezone han- | | | dling features should be used instead. | | | | +--------+---------------------------------------------------+ EXAMPLES
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