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Created February 11, 2016 16:30
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function to get the day as string for given date in string, expexted format is MM/DD/YYYY
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findDay.js
function findDay(myDate) {
var dayStrArray = ['Sunday', 'Monday', 'Tuesday', 'Wednesday', 'Thursday', 'Friday', 'Saturday']
var pattern = /(\d{2})\/(\d{2})\/(\d{4})/;
var dt = new Date(myDate.replace(pattern,'$3-$1-$2'));
console.log(dayStrArray[dt.getDay()]);
}
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