DateFormat and Calculation

[Kudret Serin]

Hi all,
I have a textfield, in which the user enters his day of birth (in dd/mm/yy format). I would like to calculate the age of user when he enters this.
1. getCurrentDate
2. format it in order to be same with the textfield
3. substract

Is it right? or what is the best way to do this?
Thanks for any help

[Michael Dunn]

create 2 calendar objects
dob (set to textfield date)
now (set to current time)
int age = now.get(Calendar.YEAR) - dob.get(Calendar.YEAR)
add age to dob
if(dob.after(now)) age --; //hasn't had birthday yet

[Stan James]

How does that work out for somebody born last week?

[Michael Dunn]

> How does that work out for somebody born last week?

it would return 0