moment js extract year from string

Question

I'm new to moment.js and I can't really understand the documentation. I'd like to manipulate some dates in string format.

I have my date as string from json feed and looks like:

var year = item.date // it returns a string like "25/04/2012" 

How do I extract the year from it using moment.js ?

Answer 1

You can use

moment("25/04/2012","DD/MM/YYYY").format("YYYY") or     moment("25/04/2012","DD/MM/YYYY").year() 

in your example:

moment(item.date,"DD/MM/YYYY").year() 

Answer 2

Or you can convert the string to date then extract the year:

var date = new Date(dateString); if (!isNaN(date)) {  return d.getFullYear(); }