java.util.Date

[kate damond]

Hi,
I have a text field, and my users will be typing a date in the format "dd-MM-yyyy" and I can check this. How can I construct a java.util.Date from this ? Will I have to extract each integer and calculate the appropriate number in milliseconds ?
Has anyone done this ? I'm a bit wary of the whole Date thing cos all the useful easy methods seem to be deprecated !
(actually, I'm feeling a bit depreKated at the moment too)
Cheers,
Kate

[Chad McGowan]

Kate, I think this example should help.
import java.text.*;
import java.util.Date;
public class DateTest
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy");
try
{
Date d = sdf.parse("02-05-1999");
System.out.println(d);
}
catch (ParseException e)
{
System.out.println("whoops");
}
}
}