Hi!
I would like the previously entered date of birth "Birth" DD.MM.YY to be shown in another question in Sufix, but without the dots. So "DDMMYY". {Birth.shown} works, but with the dots. 
The best case would be that you even enter DD.MM.YYYY and the sufix then says "DDMMYY".

Is this possible? It is relevant for the austrian insurance number (for you to know the background)


Best regards

Try the ExpressionScript str_replace() function.

- www.limesurvey.org/manual/ExpressionScri...#Access_to_functions

thank you!

Hi,
this you see in the manual str_replace Replace all occurrences of the search string with the replacement stringstring str_replace(search, replace, subject)
"Search" is "." (the dot)
"Replace" is "" (empty)
"Subject" is your question "birth"

So: {str_replace(".","",birth)}
 


But you did not say, what type of question do you use to capture the birthdate.
We assumed it is a "short text". If you use a "date/time" question it is different, as this question type stores dates as "YYYY-MM-DD".
Here you may use
{str_replace(".","",birth.shown)}
Joffm

yeah it worked perfectly with {str_replace('.', '', Birth.shown)}. Thank you!

Is there a way to change dd.mm.yyyy to ddmmyy?
i tried it with OR and ".19" and ".20" because there is no 19th/20th month. but this doesn't work - not sure if OR is allowed at all...

Na klar.
[url] www.limesurvey.org/manual/Question_type_...e#Date.2FTime_format [/url]

 


So, no "str_replace" needed, just {birth.shown}

no this is no option. Looks really bad for participants...

Oh, I obviously misunderstood.

Well, you may use all implemented string functions.

So this will "convert" 19.06.1956" to "190650"

Either you take the substring of day and month, replace the dot and add the 2-digit-year
{str_replace(".","",substr(birth.shown,0,5))+substr(birth.shown,8,2)}

or you select the three substrings separately
{substr(birth.shown,0,2)+substr(birth.shown,3,2)+substr(birth.shown,8,2)}

 

Joffm