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Reputation: 1008

Conditional date format in Flash

I am formatting the current date in an AIR Mobile project in the following way:

var dateFormatter:DateTimeFormatter = new DateTimeFormatter( Capabilities.language );
dateFormatter.setDateTimePattern("EEEE d");
trace(dateFormatter.format(date));

This works perfect, but since I have a width restriction (only 12 characters can be displayed) the problem is that in certain languages like Portuguese, the EEEE format returns Segunda-feria meaning that the number of characters would be 16 (including day number).

Is there a way to put conditional formatting meaning that EEEE cannot exceed more than 10 characters? (i.e: use EEEE always but if it exceeds more than 12 characters display EEE)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 63

Answers (1)

VC.One
VC.One

Reputation: 15926

Try something like this:

var str_tmp: String ="";
var dateFormatter :DateTimeFormatter = new DateTimeFormatter( Capabilities.language );

dateFormatter.setDateTimePattern("EEEE d");

//# check for larger than 12 chars
str_tmp = dateFormatter.format(date);
if ( str_tmp.length > 12 ) { dateFormatter.setDateTimePattern("EEE d"); }

trace(dateFormatter.format(date));

Upvotes: 2

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