Date Converting String to Date

[Abiodun Adisa]

In my application to convert from String to Date

I have the following

String tempString="Sun May 04 14:32 EDT 2008";
Date date=new Date(tempString);

It works problem is , the compiler shows a warning that the Constructor new Date(String) is deprecated, please can some one suggest an alternative way to convert from String to date

[satishkumar janakiraman]

You can use DateFormat or SimpleDateFormat instead of Date.

 
DateFormat format = DateFormat.getDateInstance();
format.parse(str);
 

[Norm Radder]

Haven't got a code example for you, but here is how you could lookup how to do it. In the java API doc, look at the Index (one of the links at the top of the doc page) for the parse() method. If you scan down thru all the different parse methods you'll see one that returns a Date object.