Question

I’ve a date picker associated with a text field.Text field has value like this Thursday, November 22nd(string recieved from server call).
Now i want that when i click on text field date picker should sow default date that is displayed in text field.
I guess i’ve to call [datePicker setDate:date animated:YES]; but problem is that how to convert string Thursday, November 22nd into NSDate?
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I assume u would like current year in your date:

NSDateFormatter *dateFormat = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormat setDateFormat:@"yyyy"];
NSString *yeardate = [dateFormat stringFromDate:[NSDate date]];

NSString *string = @"Thursday, November 22nd";
if ( [string length] > 0)
  string = [string substringToIndex:[string length] - 2];

NSString *finalstr = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@ %@",string,yeardate];
[dateFormat setDateFormat:@"EEEE,MMMM dd yyyy"];

NSDate *date = [dateFormat dateFromString:finalstr];
NSLog(@"%@",date);