regex - Javascript Date Format Convertion -

my objective date in day month year format textbox , convert mm/dd/yyyy format can compare dates

var userdate = document.getelementbyid("dateofjourney").value; //eg 21/05/2013 var formatteduserdate = new date( userdate.replace( /(\d{2})\/(\d{2})\/(\d{4})/, "$2/$1/$3")); alert(formatteduserdate); 

i'm trying escape 'forward slash' i'm getting invalid date output eg. 05/21/2013

you have done like.

var userdate = "21/5/2013".split("/"); var newdate = userdate[1]+"/"+userdate[0]+"/"+userdate[2]; var formatteduserdate = new date(newdate); alert(formatteduserdate); 

instead of using regex. here working sample.