FormatDateAsText ( baseDate ; Format )
Formats a date with a specifiable format
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Eilert Sundt Eilert Sundt Systemdesign http://www.eilert.no |
Sample input:
FormatDateAsText( Date(9;30;2009) ; "YYYY-MM-DD" )
FormatDateAsText( Date(9;30;2009) ; "M/D/YY" )
FormatDateAsText( Date(9;30;2009) ; "M/D/YY" )
Sample output:
2009-09-30
9/30/09
9/30/09
Function definition: (Copy & paste into FileMaker's Edit Custom Function window)
This custom function takes as input a date and a text representation of a date format and returns a formatted date as a text string.
The following formatting strings are supported:
M
MM
D
DD
YY
YYYY
Comments
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Maarten, Private Sep 30, 2009 |
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| I couldnt get that to work as advertised. Shouldn't it be something like this // DateAsText ( TheDate ; Format ) // Supports YYYY and YY, MM and M ; DD and D formats // separators should be set in Format (use a value list) // not recursive Let ( [ TheYear = Right ( Year ( TheDate ) ; PatternCount (Format ; "Y") ) ; TheMonth = Case ( Month ( thedate ) ≤ 9 ; Right ( "00" & Month ( thedate ) ; PatternCount ( Format ; "M" ) ) ; Month ( thedate ) ) ; TheDay = Case ( Day ( thedate ) ≤ 9 ; Right ( "00" & Day ( thedate ) ; PatternCount ( Format ; "D" )) ; Day ( thedate ) ) ; Simplified = Substitute ( Format ; ["YY" ; "Y" ] ; ["YY" ; "Y" ] ; ["MM" ; "M" ] ; ["DD" ; "D" ] ) ] ; Substitute ( Simplified ; [ "Y" ; TheYear ] ; [ "M" ; TheMonth ] ; [ "D" ; TheDay ] ) ) |
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Eilert Sundt, Hammerfest, Norway Nov 9, 2009 |
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| Sorry for returning to this so late. I accidentally pasted the wrong code initially. It should work now. | ||
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