#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Time::Local; while () { chomp; my ($y, $m, $d) = split /-/; eval { timelocal 0, 0, 0, $d, $m-1, $y-1900 }; if ($@) { print "$_ is not a valid date\n"; } else { print "$_ is a valid date\n"; } } __DATA__ 2006-10-30 2006-10-32 2006-02-29 2004-02-29