how to convert date to a string

[Chitti pokala]

Hi
I am using a date fucntion in jsp. I want to convert 2005-01-31 to 31-Jan-2005.

How can I convert this......

Thanks in Advance.

[Sonny Gill]

Have a look at DateFormat and SimpleDateFormat classes in java.text package.

Here's an example -

SimpleDateFormat sdf1 = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");
SimpleDateFormat sdf2 = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
Date date = sdf2.parse("31/01/2000");
String str = sdf1.format(date);

HTH.

[Bear Bibeault]

Not much to do with JSP, so moved to Java in General (intermediate).

[friso dejonge]

Hi,

There is a simple answer like the one below. But maybe it is more challenging to read the java tutorial:

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/i18n/format/simpleDateFormat.html

regards,
friso

[Steve Morrow]

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