Format _NowCalcDate

[skyhawk 0]

Hi Everyone!

I need some help formating the returned value of _NowCalcDate. I need the result to be in the following format of MMDDYY instead of MM/DD/YYYY which it currently is returned as.

#include <Date.au3>

; Add 5 days to today
$sNewDate = _DateAdd( 'd',5, _NowCalcDate())
MsgBox( 4096, "", "Today + 5 days: " & $sNewDate )

How would I go about doing that?

Thanks everyone for your help

Edited August 24, 2010 by skyhawk

[bogQ 89]

MsgBox( 4096, "", "Today + 5 days: " & StringReplace($sNewDate,"/","") )

and use StringLeft to get the rest

Edited August 24, 2010 by bogQ

[somdcomputerguy 101]

This'll do it..

StringTrimLeft(StringReplace($sNewDate,"/",""), 2)

[Spiff59 52]

You probably ought to just do it the old-fashioned way:

$sNewDate = StringLeft($sNewDate, 2) & StringMid($sNewDate, 4, 2) & StringRight($sNewDate, 2)

Edit: Realize though, you are risking the wrath of the Y2K gods.

Edited August 25, 2010 by Spiff59

[skyhawk 0]

Ah very cool. Thanks everyone for all the great ideas. I'll give them a go tomorrow