format(value: any, format: string, trim?: boolean, truncate?: boolean): string

Formats a number or a date.

The format strings used with the format function are similar to the ones used by Globalize.js and by the .NET Globalization library. The tables below contains links that describe the formats available:

• Standard Numeric Format Strings
• Standard Date and Time Format Strings
• Custom Date and Time Format Strings

formatDate(value: Date, format: string): string

Formats a date using the current culture.

The format parameter contains a .NET-style Date format string with the following additions:

• Q, q Calendar quarter.
• U Fiscal quarter (government).
• u Fiscal quarter (private sector).
• EEEE, EEE, EE, E Fiscal year (government).
• eeee, eee, ee, e Fiscal year (private sector).

For example:

var d = new Date(2015, 9, 1); // Oct 1, 2015
console.log(wijmo.Globalize.format(d, '"FY"EEEE"Q"U') + ' (US culture)');
> FY2016Q1 (US culture)

formatNumber(value: number, format: string, trim?: boolean, truncate?: boolean): string

Formats a number using the current culture.

The formatNumber method accepts most .NET-style Standard Numeric Format Strings, except for the 'e' and 'x' formats (scientific notation and hexadecimal) which are not supported.

Numeric format strings take the form Axxccss, where:

• A is a single case-insensitive alphabetic character called the format specifier.
• xx is an optional integer called the precision specifier. The precision specifier affects the number of digits in the result.
• cc is an optional string used to override the currency symbol when formatting currency values. This is useful when formatting currency values for cultures different than the current default (for example, when formatting Euro or Yen values in applications that use the English culture).
• ss is an optional string used to scale the number. If provided, it must consist of commas. The number is divided by 1000 for each comma specified.

The following table describes the standard numeric format specifiers and displays sample output produced by each format specifier for the default culture.

n Number: formatNumber(1234.5, 'n2') => '1,234.50'
f Fixed-point: formatNumber(1234.5, 'f2') => '1234.50'
g General (no trailing zeros): formatNumber(1234.5, 'g2') => '1234.5'
d Decimal (integers): formatNumber(-1234, 'd6') => '-001234'
x Hexadecimal (integers): formatNumber(1234, 'x6') => '0004d2'
c Currency: formatNumber(1234, 'c') => '$ 1,234.00'
p Percent: formatNumber(0.1234, 'p2') => '12.34 %'

The scaling specifier is especially useful when charting large values. For example, the markup below creates a chart that plots population versus GDP. The raw data expresses the population is units and the GDP in millions. The scaling specified in the axes formats causes the chart to show population in millions and GDP in trillions:

<wj-flex-chart
  items-source="countriesGDP" binding-x="pop" chart-type="Scatter">
  <wj-flex-chart-series
    name="GDP" binding="gdp"></wj-flex-chart-series>
  <wj-flex-chart-axis
    wj-property="axisX" title="Population (millions)" 
    format="n0,,">
  </wj-flex-chart-axis>
  <wj-flex-chart-axis
    wj-property="axisY" title="GDP (US$ trillions)"
    format="c0,,">
  </wj-flex-chart-axis>
</wj-flex-chart>

getFirstDayOfWeek(): number

Gets the first day of the week according to the current culture.

The value returned is between zero (Sunday) and six (Saturday).

getNumberDecimalSeparator(): string

Gets the symbol used as a decimal separator in numbers.

parseDate(value: string, format: string): Date

Parses a string into a Date.

Two-digit years are converted to full years based on the value of the calendar's twoDigitYearMax property. By default, this is set to 2029, meaning two-digit values of 30 to 99 are parsed as 19**, and values from zero to 29 are parsed as 20**.

You can change this threshold by assigning a new value to the calendar. For example:

// get calendar
var cal = wijmo.culture.Globalize.calendar;

// default threshold is 2029, so "30" is parsed as 1930
cal.twoDigitYearMax = 2029;
var d1 = wijmo.Globalize.parseDate('30/12', 'yy/MM'); // dec 1930
// changing threshold to 2100, so all values are parsed as 20**
cal.twoDigitYearMax = 2100;
var d2 = wijmo.Globalize.parseDate('30/12', 'yy/MM'); // dec 2030

parseFloat(value: string, format?: string): number

Parses a string into a floating point number.

parseInt(value: string, format?: string): number

Parses a string into an integer.