Date Formatter object

[The Shadow]

Here's another "object", implemented via custom functions using repeating global variables for storage.

This one implements a date formatter similar to the c-library function strftime(), which uses % as an indicator of a special char to fill in. So for example, the call:

   FormatData( ; "Short year: %y weekday number: %u day of year: %j"; GetAsDate( “11/22/1976” ) )

Returns the result:

   Short year: 76 weekday number: 2 day of year: 327

The formatter maintains the text style present in the format, and new format code letters can easily be added.

The current supported format letters are:

   %A - full weekday name

   %a - abbr weekday name

   %B - full month name

   %b - abbr month name

   %C - year / 100 with leading zero for single digits

   %D - %m/%d/%y

   %d - day as decimal number (01->31)

   %F - %Y-%m-%d

   %j - day of year (001->366)

   %M - minute (00->59)

   %m - month as number (01->12)

   %u - weekday as number (Sunday is first 1->7)

   %Y - year

   %y - year with no century

   %% - literal %

   %H - hour (24 hour)

   %I - hour, 12-hour clock

   %S - second (00->60)

   %T - %H:%M:%S

   %p - AM/PM

   %J - %Y+%m+%d (japanese date format)

I've attached an example file that contains a more information and a short tutorial.

DateFormatter.fp7.zip