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tmahender12
Frequent Contributor
9 years ago

Replace Year in a Date

HI,   I have a Date 02/09/2016, i need to replace 2016 with 2013, is there any direct method in the TestComplete?   thanks Mahender
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tristaanogre
Esteemed Contributor

The replace method is correct... however, I don't think you can do it directly with aqDateTime(Now) as that doesn't return a string but a DateTime value which is a numeric value. What you would have to do is take what aqDateTime returns and run it through aqConvert.DateTimeToStr or aqConvert.DateTimeToFormatStr in order to put the date into a string format.  Then you can do the necessary string replace call.

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Kostja
Contributor
9 years ago

Hi,

 

don't want to spam here, but just for the protocol (and the code was only as an example) :) -->

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    tristaanogre
    Esteemed Contributor
    9 years ago

    Fair enough.. :) It must do an automatic data type conversion when referenced like that... one of the "benefits" of a scripting language vs. a strong typed language.  :)

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    DenisMedvedev
    Contributor
    9 years ago

    maybe it will help you

     

    /*
* Function GetFullCurrentDate returns data in string format (03/29/2016) 
*/
this.GetFullCurrentDate = function(){
  var date =  aqConvert.DateTimeToFormatStr(aqDateTime.Today(), "%m/%d/%Y");
  return date;
  }

    or 

    /*
* Function GetCurrentDateAndTime returnsCurrent Date and Time in string format (Monday, 28, March, 2016 - 18:36) 
*/

this.GetCurrentDateAndTime = function(){
  var date = aqConvert.DateTimeToFormatStr(aqDateTime.Today(), "%A, %d, %B, %Y - ");
  var time = aqConvert.DateTimeToFormatStr(aqDateTime.Time(), "%H:%M"); 
  return date + time;
}