yea the split thing worked and so did the StringTokenizer. im using both now. its nice to learn new things like that.
these dates is driving me insaine,
they input into oracle in one format, when you select them from oracle its a different format,
java dates is another format, then i have to change them to another different java format to compare dates, then change them all back. jesus.
i have another question in here regarding the gregorianCalenger (in a new post).
maybe you can help me out with that.
thanks for your help