Utils

A collection of general purpose utility functions which can be used independently from Mobiscroll component instances.

1. Platform

import { platform } from '@mobiscroll/react';

Description

Information about the current platform.

Name	Type	Description
name	String	Possible values: 'ios' 'android' 'windows'
majorVersion	Number	The major version of the platform
minorVersion	Number	The minor version of the platform

2. Format Date

import { formatDate } from '@mobiscroll/react';

Description

Format a date into a string value with a specified format.

Example

formatDate('yy-mm-dd', new Date(2015, 1, 19));
// Produces '2015-02-19'

Parameters

Name	Type	Default	Description
format	String		The format can be combinations of the following: `M` - month of year (no leading zero) `MM` - month of year (two digit) `MMM` - month name short `MMMM` - month name long `D` - day of month (no leading zero) `DD` - day of month (two digit) `DDD` - day of week (short) `DDDD` - day of week (long) `YY` - year (two digit) `YYYY` - year (four digit) `h` - 12 hour format (no leading zero) `hh` - 12 hour format (leading zero) `H` - 24 hour format (no leading zero) `HH` - 24 hour format (leading zero) `m` - minutes (no leading zero) `mm` - minutes (leading zero) `s` - seconds (no leading zero) `ss` - seconds (leading zero) `a` - lowercase am/pm `A` - uppercase AM/PM `'...'` - literal text `''` - single quote anything else - literal text
date	Date		The date value to format
settings	Object	`{}`	A set of key/value pairs that configure the format. All settings are optional: amText (default: `'am'`) - Text for AM dayNames (default: `['Sunday', 'Monday', 'Tuesday', 'Wednesday', 'Thursday', 'Friday', 'Saturday']`) - The list of long day names, starting from Sunday. dayNamesShort (default: `['Sun', 'Mon', 'Tue', 'Wed', 'Thu', 'Fri', 'Sat']`) - The list of abbreviated day names, starting from Sunday. monthNames (default: `['January', 'February', 'March', 'April', 'May', 'June', 'July', 'August', 'September', 'October', 'November', 'December']`) - The list of full month names. monthNamesShort (default: `['Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 'May', 'Jun', 'Jul', 'Aug', 'Sep', 'Oct', 'Nov', 'Dec']`) - The list of abbreviated month names. pmText (default: `'pm'`) - Text for PM shortYearCutoff (default: `'+10'`) - Set the cutoff year for determining the century for a date (used in conjunction with dateFormat 'y'). If a numeric value (0-99) is provided then this value is used directly. If a string value is provided then it is converted to a number and added to the current year. Once the cutoff year is calculated, any dates entered with a year value less than or equal to it are considered to be in the current century, while those greater than it are deemed to be in the previous century.

3. Parse Date

import { parseDate } from '@mobiscroll/react';

Description

Extract a date from a string value with a specified format.

Example

parseDate('yy-mm-dd', '2015-02-19')); // returns date object

Parameters

Name	Type	Default	Description
format	String		The format can be combinations of the following: `M` - month of year (no leading zero) `MM` - month of year (two digit) `MMM` - month name short `MMMM` - month name long `D` - day of month (no leading zero) `DD` - day of month (two digit) `DDD` - day of week (short) `DDDD` - day of week (long) `YY` - year (two digit) `YYYY` - year (four digit) `h` - 12 hour format (no leading zero) `hh` - 12 hour format (leading zero) `H` - 24 hour format (no leading zero) `HH` - 24 hour format (leading zero) `m` - minutes (no leading zero) `mm` - minutes (leading zero) `s` - seconds (no leading zero) `ss` - seconds (leading zero) `a` - lowercase am/pm `A` - uppercase AM/PM `'...'` - literal text `''` - single quote anything else - literal text
value	String		The string value to parse
settings	Object	`{}`	A set of key/value pairs that configure the format. All settings are optional: amText (default: `'am'`) - Text for AM dayNames (default: `['Sunday', 'Monday', 'Tuesday', 'Wednesday', 'Thursday', 'Friday', 'Saturday']`) - The list of long day names, starting from Sunday. dayNamesShort (default: `['Sun', 'Mon', 'Tue', 'Wed', 'Thu', 'Fri', 'Sat']`) - The list of abbreviated day names, starting from Sunday. monthNames (default: `['January', 'February', 'March', 'April', 'May', 'June', 'July', 'August', 'September', 'October', 'November', 'December']`) - The list of full month names. monthNamesShort (default: `['Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 'May', 'Jun', 'Jul', 'Aug', 'Sep', 'Oct', 'Nov', 'Dec']`) - The list of abbreviated month names. pmText (default: `'pm'`) - Text for PM shortYearCutoff (default: `'+10'`) - Set the cutoff year for determining the century for a date (used in conjunction with dateFormat 'y'). If a numeric value (0-99) is provided then this value is used directly. If a string value is provided then it is converted to a number and added to the current year. Once the cutoff year is calculated, any dates entered with a year value less than or equal to it are considered to be in the current century, while those greater than it are deemed to be in the previous century.

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