dateTextField = ((today.getMonth() + 1) + "/" + today.getDate() + "/" + today.getFullYear()) ;
today is placed before the functions and separated by a period to tell each function that it’s referencing our new date object.
The + operand is used to string everything together. When you use + with functions like these, it appends each new value after the + sign to the string concatenated for the overall output of variable dateTextField. (You can also use it as an arithmetical operator in mathematical functions/scripts.)
If you left it just as the functions strung together, you’d end up with something like 08202006, with no breaks at all. That’s where the “/” comes in. Whenever something is placed inside quotes, Flash appends it as-is, instead of trying to read it as a variable or operand.
To break this down in descriptive terms, what this string tells Flash is, “Fetch the current month, separate it with a backslash, fetch the current day, separate that with a backslash, and then fetch the current year, and parcel all that together as a single string named “dateTextField”.
