1CGI::Untaint::date(3) User Contributed Perl DocumentationCGI::Untaint::date(3)
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NAME

6       CGI::Untaint::date - validate a date
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SYNOPSIS

9         use CGI::Untaint;
10         my $handler = CGI::Untaint->new($q->Vars);
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12         my $date = $handler->extract(-as_date => 'date');
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DESCRIPTION

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17       This Input Handler verifies that it is dealing with a reasonable date.
18       Reasonably means anything that Date::Manip thinks is sensible, so you
19       could use any of (for example):
20         "December 12, 2001"
21         "12th December, 2001"
22         "2001-12-12"
23         "next Tuesday"
24         "third Wednesday in March"
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26       See Date::Manip for much more information on what date formats are
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29       The resulting date will be a Date::Simple object.  Date::Simple for
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34       By default ambiguous dates of the format 08/09/2001 will be treated as
35       UK style (i.e. 8th September rather than 9th August)
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37       If you want to change this, subclass it and override date_format()
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WARNING

40       Date::Manip does not play nicely with taint mode. In order to work
41       around this we locally clobber Date::Manip's 'timezone' code. As we're
42       only interested in dates rather than times, this shouldn't be much of
43       an issue. If it is, then please let me know!
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SEE ALSO

46       Date::Simple. Date::Manip.
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AUTHOR

49       Tony Bowden
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BUGS and QUERIES

52       Please direct all correspondence regarding this module to:
53         bug-CGI-Untaint-date@rt.cpan.org
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56       Copyright (C) 2001-2005 Tony Bowden. All rights reserved.
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58       This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
59       under the same terms as Perl itself.
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