Just out of curiosity, does Date.parse() suck that badly? I would just regex replace "-" with "/" and hand it to Date.parse().
From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Rowe Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 10:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Date issue - need to create date out of string like xxxx-xx-xx from XML It's got to just be total coincidence that what's virtually the same question has come up twice in the same day. The answer I provided earlier will also work, and will do so in ~5 lines of code. --Tim ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Josh McDonald Sent: Tuesday, 16 September 2008 3:43 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Date issue - need to create date out of string like xxxx-xx-xx from XML Old code, probably terribly inefficient: //YYYY-MM-DD static public const SIMPLE_INTL_DATE : RegExp = /^(\d{4})[-\/](\d{2})[-\/](\d{2})$/; //YYYY-MM-DD - midday! static public function parseSimpleIntlDate(input : String) : Date { var parts : Array = input.match(SIMPLE_INTL_DATE); var d : Date = new Date(); d.milliseconds = 0; d.seconds = 0; d.minutes = 0; d.hours = 12; d.date = Convert.stringToInt(parts[3]); d.month = Convert.stringToInt(parts[2]) - 1; d.fullYear = Convert.stringToInt(parts[1]); //Not really necessary, since we're unlikely to have a year < 999, but you get that. return d; } public class Convert { private static const validButIgnoredCharactersInNumbers : RegExp = /[,\$]/g; public static function stringToInt(input : String) : Number { return parseInt(cleanupNumberInput(input)); } public static function stringToFloat(input : String) : Number { return parseFloat(cleanupNumberInput(input)); } public static function cleanupNumberInput(input : String) : String { if (input == null) return null; //Strip any initial 0s - don't wanna parse as octal, do we? var output : String = input; while (output.charAt(0) == "0" && output.length > 1) output = output.substr(1); return output.replace(validButIgnoredCharactersInNumbers, ""); } } On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Andrew Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: Hello - I am having an issue creating a valid Flex Date object from a value returned to my app in XML. The returned value is 2008-09-14 (year- month-day), and no matter how I try, I can't create a valid date object from this. Has anyone ever had to do something similar, or have any ideas on what I might do? Andrew ------------------------------------ -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Alternative FAQ location: https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf-1e62079f6847 Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups Links -- "Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee." http://flex.joshmcdonald.info/ :: Josh 'G-Funk' McDonald :: 0437 221 380 :: [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
