How to convert string to date to string in Swift iOS? [duplicate]

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Am learning swift and am struck in converting the date String to NSDate to string. Am getting the date string in this format "Thu, 22 Oct 2015 07:45:17 +0000". I need to show the date in the MM-dd-yyyy format. I tried the following code but, it returns "null".

let dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "MM-dd-yyyy"
dateFormatter.dateStyle = NSDateFormatterStyle.MediumStyle
let dateObj = dateFormatter.dateFromString(dateString!)
print("Dateobj: (dateObj)")


Can anyone please help where am going wrong? Looking forward the help. Thanks in advance.

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First, you need to convert your string to NSDate with its format. Then, you change the dateFormatter to your simple format and convert it back to a String.

dateFormatter

SWIFT 3

let dateString = "Thu, 22 Oct 2015 07:45:17 +0000"
let dateFormatter = DateFormatter()
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "EEE, dd MMM yyyy hh:mm:ss +zzzz"
dateFormatter.locale = Locale.init(identifier: "en_GB")

let dateObj = dateFormatter.date(from: dateString)

dateFormatter.dateFormat = "MM-dd-yyyy"
print("Dateobj: (dateFormatter.string(from: dateObj!))")


The printed result is: Dateobj: 10-22-2015

Dateobj: 10-22-2015

Swift 3

dateFormatter.stringFromDate(date)

dateFormatter.string(from:date)

dateFormatter.locale = Locale.init(identifier: "en_GB")

en_US_POSIX

Date

//String to Date Convert

var dateString = "2014-01-12"
var dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd"
let s = dateFormatter.dateFromString(dateString)
println(s)


//CONVERT FROM NSDate to String

let date = NSDate()
var dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd"
var dateString = dateFormatter.stringFromDate(date)
println(dateString)


Swift 3:

let date = NSDate()
var dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "MM-dd-yyyy"
var dateString = dateFormatter.stringFromDate(date)
println(dateString)


And in Swift 4 this would now be written as:

let date = Date()
let dateFormatter = DateFormatter()
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "MM-dd-yyyy"
var dateString = dateFormatter.string(from: date)


See answer from Gary Makin. And you need change the format or data. Because the data that you have do not fit under the chosen format. For example this code works correct:

let dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "MM-dd-yyyy"
let dateObj = dateFormatter.dateFromString("10 10 2001")
print("Dateobj: (dateObj)")