Question

I have a date in the format MM/DD/YYYY. I need to then convert it into , using javascript. (More exact example: 05/25/2012 –> “May 25, 2012”) I know how to convert the dates, but by question is:

Is there a more efficient way, whether using a javascript function or something else, to convert the MM/DD/YYYY to the format above instead of using a switch statement and concatenating strings?

Answer 1

By accessing an array you could do this

var monthArray = ['January', 'February', ... , 'December'];


var date = "05/25/2012";

var dateParts = date.split('/');

var convertedDate = monthArray[parseInt(dateParts[0], 10)] + " " + dateParts[1] + ", " + dateParts[2];