Date conversion Q.

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Hi,
I have a date in a string as such: 2000-Feb-2 18:37:44+02
I want to convert it to: 2000-02-02 18:37:44+02 by any means necessary.

It looks like I might want to use DateFormat but then I see Calendar and I'm getting confused. If anyone knows the best class and/or function I would be very appreciative. Code for that matter would be a life saver!

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Stan James

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You can use DateFormat to parse a string into a Calendar object, and another DateFormat to format the Calendar back into another String.

You could also split() the string on hyphens, find the "Feb" part, look up "02" in a map and put the string back together. But the date stuff is much more elegant.

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