Question

There are some posts on this, but not an answer to this specific question.

The server is returning this: "/Date(1304146800000)/"

I would like to not change the server-side code at all and instead parse the date that is included in the .Net generated JSON object. This doesn’t seem that hard because it looks like it is almost there. Yet there doesn’t seem to be a quick fix, at least in these forums.

From previous posts it sounds like this can be done using REGEX but REGEX and I are old enemies that coldly stare at each other across the bar.

Is this the only way? If so, can someone point me to a REGEX reference that is appropriate to this task?

Regards,

Guido

Answer 1

The link from Robert is good, but we should strive to answer the question here, not to just post links.

Here’s a quick function that does what you need. http://jsfiddle.net/Aaa6r/

function deserializeDotNetDate(dateStr) {
  var matches = /\/Date\((\d*)\)\//.exec(dateStr);

  if(!matches) {
    return null;
  }

  return new Date( parseInt( matches[1] ) );
}

deserializeDotNetDate("/Date(1304146800000)/");