Question

Hi i’m trying to format my NSString. But its not working. I tried all the answers which i got in stackoverflow, But nothing works for me.

NSLog(@"log 1: %@ %@", [dealDetailsDict objectForKey:@"DealDateViewed"], [[dealDetailsDict objectForKey:@"DealDateViewed"] class]);
NSDateFormatter *df = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[df setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"];
NSLog(@"log 2: %@ %@", [df stringFromDate:[dealDetailsDict objectForKey:@"DealDateViewed"]], [df dateFromString:[dealDetailsDict objectForKey:@"DealDateViewed"]]);

I don’t know what is the problem is here, both stringFromDate and dateFromString returning nil. This is my NSLog.

log 1: 2013-01-09 10:02:45 +0000 __NSCFString
log 2: (null) (null)

I want to display date like 31-12-2010. So i set,

[df setDateFormat:@"dd-MM-yyyy"];

Here my problem started.

Answer 1

Use below functionality for date format…

-(NSString*) Dateformate:(NSString*)str
{    
    NSDateFormatter *dfrt =[[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
    [dfrt setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-dd h:mm:ss"];
    NSDate *presentdate = [dfrt dateFromString:str];
    [dfrt setDateFormat:@"MMMM"];
    NSString *fullMonth = [dfrt stringFromDate:presentdate];

    [dfrt setDateFormat:@"yyyy"];
    NSString *yearStr = [dfrt stringFromDate:presentdate];
   // NSLog(@"month %@",presentdate);

    [dfrt setFormatterBehavior:NSDateFormatterBehavior10_4];
    [dfrt setDateFormat:@"d"];
    int date_day = [[dfrt stringFromDate:presentdate] intValue];
    NSString *suffix_string = @"|st|nd|rd|th|th|th|th|th|th|th|th|th|th|th|th|th|th|th|th|th|st|nd|rd|th|th|th|th|th|th|th|st";
    NSArray *suffixes = [suffix_string componentsSeparatedByString: @"|"];
    NSString *suffix = [suffixes objectAtIndex:date_day];

    NSString *fullDateFormat = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@ %d%@ %@",fullMonth,date_day,suffix,yearStr];

   // NSLog(@"fullDateFormat %@",fullDateFormat);

    return fullDateFormat;

}