Converting date string from dashes to forward slashes

Question

I am trying to convert my dashed date 2013-12-11 to 2013/12/11 using the following function:

function convertDate(stringdate)
{
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Answer 1

Your function is working as expected convertDate(myDate) is returning the / value off the date.

Your problem seems to be your logging

var myDate = '2013-12-11';
console.log('Before', myDate); //2013-12-11

convertDate(myDate);
console.log('After', myDate); //2013-12-11 

Your function returns a value so convertDate(myDate) is just returning and doing nothing. And your console log for after is just returning the same date as before.

If you change your console log to

console.log('After', convertDate(myDate)); //2013-12-11 

You will get the expected result, or set myDate to the new value

  myDate = convertDate(myDate);
    console.log('After', myDate); //2013-12-11 

Answer 2

I'm not sure if I misunderstand the question; why not just this:

function convertDate(stringdate)
{
    stringdate = stringdate.replace(/-/g, "/");
    return stringdate;
}

Answer 3

Use String Replace to replace the dashes with slashes.

string.replace(/-/g,"/")