Verifying if number in a text field will evaluate to a date format

I have a field, FieldA, that contains 6 numbers, (although the field is a text field). I need to know if that field's numbers evaluate to a true date in the format of mmddyy. For example, if FieldA contains 060110, then that would evaluate to a true date of 6/1/10. However, if FieldA contains 130110, then this is not a valid date and the test will indicate accordingly. I was thinking of using a case statement, but unsure of how to test if the numbers evaluate to a valid date..
Sort of:
CASE WHEN FieldA = 'Valid Date' THEN FieldA TO_DATE(FieldA, 'mm-dd-yyyy')
Any help is appreciated..
Thanks..

user12296489 wrote:
I have a field, FieldA, that contains 6 numbers, (although the field is a text field). I need to know if that field's numbers evaluate to a true date in the format of mmddyy. For example, if FieldA contains 060110, then that would evaluate to a true date of 6/1/10. However, if FieldA contains 130110, then this is not a valid date and the test will indicate accordingly. I was thinking of using a case statement, but unsure of how to test if the numbers evaluate to a valid date..
Sort of:
CASE WHEN FieldA = 'Valid Date' THEN FieldA TO_DATE(FieldA, 'mm-dd-yyyy')If fielda contains '060110' (meaining June 1, 2010), then you want to use 'mmddrr' as the 2nd argument to TO_CHAR, not 'mm-dd-yyyy'.
Any help is appreciated..The following thread has a couple of different solutions:
Re: how to select valid dates only

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