How to Convert String into Date

Question

hell there everybody,i have a question which is:how do we convert string which we get by reading a XML into date type instance value???so there is a XML which has modifiedDate as an atribute on one node of the XML and how i do put that value into a variable of date instance??the timeformat in the XML is: mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss => 12/31/2010 23:57:46i choose this time format because i want to use the .parse() method which still cause some error but this is for another topic..,hope i make myself clear about the question,thanks in advance for the help.

Ned Murphy · Accepted Answer

First you should look at the Date object constructor to see how to specify the different parameters.

public function Date(yearOrTimevalue:Object, month:Number, date:Number = 1, hour:Number = 0, minute:Number = 0, second:Number = 0, millisecond:Number = 0)

Then you need to determne how to break down the String using the String.split() method. The first split() should be the space between date and time, the second for the slashes in the date, and the third for the colons in the time.

Then you just take each of those arrays of substrings and feed them into the contructor as Number() values.

If you remain unsure how to proceed, look up the various terms I've identified in the help documents and you will find them all explained along with examples.

Andrei1-bKoviI · Answer

I may not understand the question but parse DOES work with the date format you showed - there is no need for any additional manipulations:

var xmlString:String = "12/31/2010 23:57:46";
var date:Date = new Date(Date.parse(xmlString));

trace("parse", Date.parse(xmlString));
trace("month", date.month);
trace("date", date.date);
trace("year", date.fullYear);
trace("hours", date.hours);
trace("minutes", date.minutes);
trace("seconds", date.seconds);

Output:

parse 1293857866000
month 11
date 31
year 2010
hours 23
minutes 57
seconds 46

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