Data rule - Is_date Rule

Question

Hi
I m trying to create adata rule which can identify whether the incomeing data is date or not. I tried using is_date data rule. but the format in which my data comes, is not supported by the IS_DATE rule. My data comes in 'DD/MM/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'
So, I created my own custom rule. But when i deploy the mapping it says that it doesnt recognises HH24, MI, SS. how should this time variables be represented?
Please help me on this.
Regards
Vibhuti

Answer 1

Hi
The above mentioned problem waas solved. Thanks to the concept of Regular Expressions. I had to create a custom rule/data format rule and in the expression i gave the following RegExps and i applied this rule on my tables. It worked fine.
--DD/MM/YYYY HH24:MI:SS
^(((0?[1-9]|[12]\d|3[01])[\.\-\/](0?[13578]|1[02])[\.\-\/]((1[6-9]|[2-9]\d)?\d{2}))|((0?[1-9]|[12]\d|30)[\.\-\/](0?[13456789]|1[012])[\.\-\/]((1[6-9]|[2-9]\d)?\d{2}))|((0?[1-9]|1\d|2[0-8])[\.\-\/]0?2[\.\-\/]((1[6-9]|[2-9]\d)?\d{2}))|(29[\.\-\/]0?2[\.\-\/]((1[6-9]|[2-9]\d)?(0[48]|[2468][048]|[13579][26])|((16|[2468][048]|[3579][26])00)|00))) ([0-1]?[0-9]|[2][0-3]):([0-5]?[0-9]):([0-5]?[0-9])$
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Regards
Vibhuti