I'm trying to construct a nice file name. I tried to do it in 1 line in JS, but have not found anything yet. So I did these
const date = new Date().toLocaleDateString().replaceAll('/', '-').replaceAll('_', '-').replaceAll(' ', '-');
const time = new Date().toLocaleTimeString().replaceAll('/', '-').replaceAll('_', '-').replaceAll(' ', '-');
let dateTime = date + '-' + time;
console.log(dateTime);I got
6-24-2022-3_38_18-PM
Why is the 2x _ underscores still there ??
I'm trying to get
6-24-2022-3-33-17-PM
Do you guys know a better way to achieve that ?
const date = new Date().toLocaleDateString().replaceAll('/', '-').replaceAll('_', '-').replaceAll(' ', '-')
const time = new Date().toLocaleTimeString().replaceAll('/', '-').replaceAll('_', '-').replaceAll(' ', '-')
console.log(date + '-' + time)I see almost your desired result: 6-24-2022-3:48:11-PM (since you did not change : (colon) in time.
Why is the 2x
_underscores still there ??
You are likely replacing something that isn't actually an underscore
Do you guys know a better way to achieve that?
Yes. Try using a RegExp
const date = new Date().toLocaleDateString().replace(/[^apm\d]+/gi, '-')
const time = new Date().toLocaleTimeString().replace(/[^apm\d]+/gi, '-')
let dateTime = date + '-' + time
console.log(dateTime)This will remove anything that is not ([^...]+) an a p m or digit (\d).
/.../gi are the flags global and case-insensitive.