Using the Function:: Method for Spry Processing

Question

i have read the relevant article (
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/samples/data_region/Function_colon.html)
and have successfully managed to format as currency my price data
in my spry table.
what syntax do i need to format dates ? and is there a
general reference i can look at for creating similar finctions ?
regards

Answer 1

There isn't a general reference, mainly because there are a
wide variety of date formats ... but I suppose any sample would be
better than none.
In any case, what is your date format in your data, and what
is the format you want it to look like in the output?
An example would be:
function FormattedDate(region, lookupFunc)
// Get the date column which is in the format "20090120"
// and format it so it looks like "01/20/2009".
return
lookupFunc("{date}").replace(/(\d\d\d\d)(\d\d)(\d\d)/, "$2/$3/$1");
<div
spry:region="ds1">{function::FormattedDate}</div>
--== Kin ==--