| DAYOFWEEKASSTRING | |
| Description
Determines the day of the week, in a date, as a string function. |
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| Returns
The day of the week, as a string in the current locale, that corresponds to day_of_week. |
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| Category
Date and time functions, String functions |
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Function syntaxDayOfWeekAsString(day_of_week) |
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| See also
Day, DayOfWeek, DayOfYear, DaysInMonth, DaysInYear, FirstDayOfMonth |
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| History
ColdFusion MX 7: Changed behavior. The returned string is now in the language of the current locale. |
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| Example
The following example shows the use of the DayOfWeekAsString function. It is the action page for a form that submits year, month, and day fields. <h3>DayOfWeekAsString Example</h3>
<cfif IsDefined("FORM.year")>
More information about your date:
<cfset yourDate = CreateDate(FORM.year, FORM.month, FORM.day)>
<cfoutput>
<p>Your date, #DateFormat(yourDate)#.
<br>It is #DayofWeekAsString(DayOfWeek(yourDate))#, day
#DayOfWeek(yourDate)# in the week.
<br>This is day #Day(YourDate)# in the month of
#MonthAsString(Month(yourDate))#, which has
#DaysInMonth(yourDate)# days.
<br>We are in week #Week(yourDate)# of #Year(YourDate)# (day
#DayofYear(yourDate)#
of #DaysinYear(yourDate)#).
<br><cfif IsLeapYear(Year(yourDate))>This is a leap year
<cfelse>This is not a leap year</cfif>
</cfoutput>
</cfif>
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| DAY_OF_WEEK | |