Date display in presentation template file

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new to templating. I captured against "Publish date" text field a date in the format of "MM-DD-YYYY". I am not good at complicated regular expressions. Is it too difficult to accomplish this? Is it possible to display using <iw-case> tag in the presentation template the above .
any code examples how to accomplish this please?
thank you

Adam Stoller

Are you saying you want to be able to convert a date in one format (in the DCR) into another format in the generated page (via a PT)?

If so - you only seemed to present one format in your post.

What format is the date in the DCR?
What format do you want it in in the generated page?

As a simple example:
If the date is in YYYY-MM-DD format and you want it in MM/DD/YYY format - you could do something like this within an <iw_perl> statement (assuming $val already contains the date extracted from the DCR):

if ($val =~ m|^(\d{4})-(\d{2})-(\d{2})$|){
$val = "$2/$3/$1";
iwpt_output($val);
}


--fish
(Interwoven Senior Technical Consultant)