Convert string to date and add 5 days to it

Question

I have a string like so

\"2014-10-29\"

and Now I need to convert it to a date and add 5 days to it.

I have this code that adds 5 days t

Answer 1

You could also use the wonderful library called moment.js - it makes working with dates in JavaScript an absolute breeze. Especially converting them back and forth to/from strings.

With your date and using moment, you could do this for example:

var stringFormat = 'YYYY-MM-DD', 
    date = moment('2014-10-29', 'YYYY-MM-DD');

date.add(5, 'days');

console.log(date.format(stringFormat);

This will print out the string in the same format as you put in.