Need to parse a date from a String.

[Tontang Bei]

Hello,
I need to parse a date from a String. Ive been checking the APis and everything seems so deprecated. I cant figure out how to do this Any pointers?

[Joanne Neal]

Did you try looking at SimpleDateFormat ?

[Burkhard Hassel]

Hi Bei,

I noticed, this is your 100th post. So you're expected to open a bottle of wine.

One of the classes you need is java.text.SimpleDateFormat
(see Where your java is /Java/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html)
The document also shows what letter means what (e.g. that big M meand month and small m means minute)

An example:

public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String formatStr = "MM-dd-yyyy";
String input = "05-04-2007";
java.text.DateFormat myFormat = new java.text.SimpleDateFormat(
formatStr);
java.util.Date date = null;
try {
date = myFormat.parse(input);
} catch (java.text.ParseException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
System.out.println(date);
System.out.println(myFormat.format(date));
 
}
}

Prints:
Fri May 04 00:00:00 CEST 2007 <- my time zone, Yours, Bu.
05-04-2007

[Tontang Bei]

Hi Bu,
Thanks for the explanation. I have also implemented something pretty much the same in my program. But now I have to so some date arithmetic on it. any ideas on that? I basically have to compare 2 dates I guess I will have to parse the month, the date and the year from the Date object.(Is that possible?) Is there another way to do this?