remove .substring on certain scenarios.

[njengert]

I work for a public library, and when someone checksout a book, we give them a reciept with a Due date, using $F{Item_Due_Date} which is a string.
However, this printed out 12-31-15 00:00AM

To fix this, I used $F{Item_Due_Date}.substring(0,8)
It then would print 12-31-15

This is perfect! With the excpetion of one thing. Laptops/headphones...Which are limited to 2 hours. And since I removed the time part, the receipt just gives the whole day. Therefore, someone may not remember when they are due back.

In short of having the librarian writting the time on the reciept is there a way to fix this? Something like if due_date doesn't end in 0's print it out?

Thank you for your help!

 

[hozawa]

Do something like below:

"00:00".equals(string.substring(string.length() - 5)) ?$F{Item_Due_Date}.substring(0,8) : $F{Item_Due_Date}

[njengert]

Thanks for your help Hozawa!

This is the formula I ended up using:
$F{Item_Due_Date}.substring(9,16).equals("00:00AM")?$F{Item_Due_Date}.substring(0,8):$F{Item_Due_Date}