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Reputation: 15

How to convert string in format DD/MM/YYYY to date object in Flex

I am taking date input from user in text field, which is in format DD/MM/YYYY. How to convert this string to date object in Flex. Platform: Adobe Flash Builder 4.6

Upvotes: 1

Views: 6233

Answers (3)

drevans
drevans

Reputation: 58

If you are not on the latest Apache SDK (I know we aren't because of third party components) you basically have to write your own conversion.

The built in DateFormatter has the static method, parseDateString, but you have no way of specifying the format of the string. It was a bit rubbish!

If you definitely have no localisation issues and are sure the date is ALWAYS in DD/MM/YYYY format you could use the following:

public function stringToDate(date:String):Date {
    // Extract year, month and day from passed in date string
    var year:int = IntFromSubString(date, 6, 4);
    var month:int = IntFromSubString(date, 3, 2);
    var day:int = IntFromSubString(date, 0, 2);

    // Always remember Flex months start from 0 (Jan=0, Feb=1 etc.) so take 1 off the parsed month
    return new Date(year, month-1, day);
}

private static function IntFromSubString(date:String, start:int, length:int):int {
    return parseInt(date.substr(start, length)) as int;
}

Upvotes: 0

splash
splash

Reputation: 13327

Since Flex SDK 4.10.0 you can use 

DateFormatter.parseDateString(s, "DD/MM/YYYY");

Former versions of parseDateString didn't respect a format string, so it cannot parse dateString value formatted with non default en_US format

Upvotes: 3

Pete TNT
Pete TNT

Reputation: 8403

Use DateField's stringToDate method. DateFormatter also has a parseDateString function but for some reason it's set to protected.

  public function convertStringToDate(s:String):Date
  {       
       return DateField.stringToDate(s, "DD/MM/YYYY");
  }

Upvotes: 0

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