moment.parseFormat – a moment.js plugin

A moment.js plugin to extract the format of a date/time string

Installation

Load via script tag

<script src="moment.js"></script>
<script src="moment.parseFormat.js"></script>

Install using npm for node.js:

npm install --save moment-parseformat

Browser Usage

var format = moment.parseFormat('Thursday, February 6th, 2014 9:20pm'/* , options */);
// dddd, MMMM Do, YYYY h:mma
moment().format(format); // format

Node / CommonJS Usage

var moment  = require 'moment'
var parseFormat = require('moment-parseformat')

var format = parseFormat('Thursday, February 6th, 2014 9:20pm'/* , options */);
// dddd, MMMM Do, YYYY h:mma
moment().format(format); // format

Options

Options can be passed as 2nd parameter

preferredOrder

Type: Object or String

parseFormat tries to figure out the the order of day/month/year by itself if it finds 3 numbers separated by ., - or /. But if it can't, it will fallback to preferredOrder, which can either be set as an object to differentiate by separator, or as a simple string.

Default value:

preferredOrder: {
  '/': 'MDY',
  '.': 'DMY',
  '-': 'YMD'
}

Usage

parseFormat('10.10.2010', {preferredOrder: 'DMY'});
// ☛ DD.MM.YYYY
parseFormat('10.10.2010', {preferredOrder: 'MDY'});
// ☛ MM.DD.YYYY
parseFormat('10.10.2010', {preferredOrder: {
  '/': 'MDY',
  '.': 'DMY',
  '-': 'YMD'
}});
// ☛ MM.DD.YYYY
parseFormat('10/10/2010', {preferredOrder: {
  '/': 'MDY',
  '.': 'DMY',
  '-': 'YMD'
}});
// ☛ DD/MM/YYYY

Fine Print

The moment.parseFormat Plugin have been authored by Gregor Martynus, proud member of the Hoodie Community.

License: MIT