Question

I got an application wich read XML file and extract data of the nodes and put the data into textfields.

One of the node is <date>20110305162831</date>

In my textfield I got: 20110305162831

Whish is not very understandable for enduser…

How can i format it like:

2011/03/05 16:28:31

Is it possible?

Here is my AppControler.m code:

    NSMutableArray* dates = [[NSMutableArray alloc] initWithCapacity:10];
    NSXMLElement* root  = [doc rootElement];
    NSXMLElement* root  = [doc rootElement];

    NSArray* dateArray = [root nodesForXPath:@"//Report/ReportCreationDate" error:nil];
    for(NSXMLElement* xmlElement in dateArray)
        [dates addObject:[xmlElement stringValue]];

    NSString * date = [dates objectAtIndex:0];

    [dateTextField setStringValue:date];

    [doc release];
    [dates release];

If someone can help me, it would be great!

Thanks in advance

Miskia

Answer 1

NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[[NSDateFormatter alloc] init] autorelease];
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"yyyyMMddHHmmss"];    
NSDate* date = [dateFormatter dateFromString: @"20110305163031"];
[dateFormatter setDateFormat: @"yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss"];
NSString* date_str = [dateFormatter stringFromDate: date];