Hmmm... too bad. Yeah, CreateDate() assumes that I already have the day month and year broken out into their respective pieces. Of course, given the mask and some regex it wouldn't be impossible, but I wanted to look for pre-built solutions before I tried it myself.
I'm a little fuzzy on exactly what parsedatetime does for me. Supposedly it accepts "A string containing a date/time value formatted according to U.S. locale conventions." Ok, great. What the crap are "U.S. locale conventions"? Yes, Rick, I googled it and really didn't find anything at all useful. =) The example at the bottom of the live docs doesn't really show sample input. And then there's the "pop-conversion" input. It seems to only affect time zones, but again-- the live docs don't actually show an example which uses it. Either way, I'm pretty certain parsedatetime can only be used with a fairly standardized string like mm/dd/yyyy. I think my best bet might be to iterate over the mask finding the individual pieces, strip out the corresponding characters from the string, and then piece them back together with createdate(). That is, unless someone can show me that has already been written somewhere. If I can get it working, I will post the code for public shredding. :) ~Brad -----Original Message----- From: Andy Matthews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 4:50 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: date UN-mask There's also ParseDateTime which returns a date object from a string. But I used your example and it didn't pass muster. -----Original Message----- From: Andy Matthews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 4:46 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: date UN-mask You tried CreateDate()? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Check out the new features and enhancements in the latest product release - download the "What's New PDF" now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:286533 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
