Question

I searched a bit but couldn’t find the answer.

I want to get current date and format to YYYYMMDD

I cannot use EXSLT as per my requirements.

Answer 1

A very simple Inline C# Script Functoid could look like this:

public string MyDateFormat(string dateValue)
{
    string result = String.Empty;
    string outputFormat = "{0:yyyyMMdd}";

    DateTime parsed;

    if (DateTime.TryParse(dateValue, out parsed))
    {
        result = String.Format(outputFormat, parsed);
    }
    else
    {
        result = String.Format(outputFormat, DateTime.MinValue);
    }

    return result;
}

For a similar problem I created a External Assembly which will allow to specify CultureInfo for parsing the input DateTime string and also submit the output format string as a functoid input parameter.