sacepums
Hey guys.
I’m new to elixir and im really stocked about it. But I ran into a bit of problem - I need to convert a date sting, for example “22.02.2017” (dd.mm.yyyy) to Ecto.Date struct. How can I do that? Or at least to a “yyyy-mm-dd” string
I come from PHPs background and PHP has strtotime() function, which converts any date format you can throw at it into timestamp… Is there anything like that in elixir / phoenix?
Thanks
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murtza
You can use
Ecto.Date.cast. See https://hexdocs.pm/ecto/Ecto.Date.html for reference.sacepums
But how can I turn that dd.mm.yyyy date to yyyy-mm-dd? What is the best practice? Cast the string into tuple?
murtza
You can convert by using
String.replace("22.02.2017", ~r/\./, "-")and then cast it toEcto.Datewfgilman
You can also use Elixir’s
Datemodule:I believe Ecto.Date and DateTime are deprecated as of Ecto 2.1.