From af496fd2e0c0967b386a4d30e7158b9f823409aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brandon Rodriguez <brodriguez8774@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2020 17:41:24 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Create a few helper functions for later use
---
src/helper_functions.js | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 39 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 src/helper_functions.js
diff --git a/src/helper_functions.js b/src/helper_functions.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4e1b051
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/helper_functions.js
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+/**
+ * Contains misc helper functions.
+ */
+
+
+/**
+ * Update strings to have an equivalent the "format()" found in Python strings.
+ *
+ * Found from https://stackoverflow.com/a/4974690
+ */
+String.prototype.format = function() {
+ let i = 0, args = arguments;
+ return this.replace(/{}/g, function () {
+ return typeof args[i] != 'undefined' ? args[i++] : '';
+ });
+}
+
+
+/**
+ * Gets human-readible string of current datetime.
+ *
+ * Date parsing logic from https://stackoverflow.com/a/5416970
+ * Extra padding logic found at https://stackoverflow.com/a/20460414
+ */
+function getCurrentDate() {
+ let currentDate = new Date;
+
+ return '{}-{}-{} {}:{}:{}'.format(
+ ('0000' + currentDate.getFullYear()).slice(-4),
+ ('00' + (currentDate.getMonth() + 1)).slice(-2),
+ ('00' + currentDate.getDate()).slice(-2),
+ ('00' + currentDate.getHours()).slice(-2),
+ ('00' + currentDate.getMinutes()).slice(-2),
+ ('00' + currentDate.getSeconds()).slice(-2),
+ );
+}
+
+
+module.exports = getCurrentDate;
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