Question

My Adobe Flex app relies on taking a user’s details from Facebook, which will later be stored into my database. My remote server has a default date setting of yyyy-mm-dd, yet the birthday field retrieved from Facebook is the American mm-dd-yyyy as a string. I have decided that it makes sense to use my server’s setting, especially as I can use the CURDATE() function. This leaves me in a tricky situation; so how would I go about modifying the string?

I imagined I would have to split the returned value into 3 sub values of day, month and year, then paste them back together in a different order. I have no idea how this would be done in Flex though. Can anybody help?

Thankyou.

Answer 1

var dateStr:String = "04-29-2012";
var parts:Array = dateStr.split("-");


if(parts == null || parts.length != 3)
{
  // Input error
}

dateStr = parts[2] + "-" + parts[0] + "-" + parts[1];
// Result : 2012-04-29