I'm writing a Google Apps Script that is supposed to send warning emails when the date of a certain event approaches. I have all the events set up in a Google Spreadsheet, and each event has a start and end date associated with it.
I'm running into problems when trying to parse the date from the cells in the spreadsheet. When I obtain the value of the date in the cell, it doesn't actually return a Date object, so I can't create a Date straight up from the values obtained from the cell. I can, however, convert it to a string and then split the string on space tokens to obtain the year, month, and day. Now this is where the problem occurs; it won't let me perform .parseInt() on the resulting variable, and I can't figure out why. So far, the code for the function I'm making to convert the date obtained from the spreadsheet looks like this:
function convertToDateObject(date)
{
var months =
{
'Jan' : '01',
'Feb' : '02',
'Mar' : '03',
'Apr' : '04',
'May' : '05',
'Jun' : '06',
'Jul' : '07',
'Aug' : '08',
'Sep' : '09',
'Oct' : '10',
'Nov' : '11',
'Dec' : '12'
};
var dateArray = date.toString().split(" ");
var month = dateArray[1].parseInt(); // This is actually in the form of name (e.g. Jan, Feb, etc.), but I know how to change this already
var day = dateArray[2].parseInt();
var year = dateArray[3].parseInt();
}
That's all I have so far, because when I try to compile, I get an error stating: "Cannot find function parseInt in object ..."
If I do typeof month, day, or year, it returns string. Can anyone help me?