Date display in presentation template file

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

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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)

Migrateduser

thank you.
the date captured on DCR is in the format of MM-DD-YYYY. I wanted to show that date in the form of January 10, 2002
And I don't know anything is perl. Using PT tags is it possible to do?
thanks

Adam Stoller

You seem to have found a solution from your other thread on this same question, so I'll assume this is essentially a dead-thread now.

However, I'd recommend learning Perl when you find the time - it's a very versatile and useful scripting language (and not just within the context of TeamSite) - which once learned, opens up a LARGE number of possibilities.

If you've have programming experience in Unix shell, or C / C++ type languages - just go for O'Reilly's "Programming Perl", otherwise you might want to start with O'Reilly's "Learning Perl"

Frankly I'd recommend picking up a copy and just reading it - a chapter here, a chapter there, over time - you'll eventually start playing with it and hopefully come to enjoy doing so.

--fish
(Interwoven Senior Technical Consultant)

Migrateduser

thank you so much for your recommendation.

I will buy the "Learning Perl" book today and start practicing.
regards