<div><br clear="all">Hi Folks,</div>
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<div>I dont know much about Regular Expressions. But I just want to share my ideas.</div>
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<div>I was trying to implement error checking code on the date argument:</div>
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<div>I did this: </div>
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<div>import re</div>
<div># the user should enter date in the format: dd/mm/yyyy</div>
<div>p = re.compile('\d\d/\d\d/\d\d\d\d')</div>
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<div>m = p.match(date)</div>
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<div>the function match will return an object of type SRE_Match only if the user has supplied the string in the form of dd/mm/yyyy. If the user tries to supply negative values, then match will return None.</div>
<div>So no hassle of using all those Ifs and Elifs........</div>
<div>I think REGULAR Expressions can be quite powerful...</div>
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<div>Regards,</div>
<div>Asrarahmed<br>-- <br>To HIM you shall return. </div>