Date - finding tomorrow

[Mary Taylor]

I have a date in a String format, "11-08-2002" and I'd like to get the next day. I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed with all the information about dates. How would I go about this?
Thanks.

[James Swan]

Kind of verbose, but here's one way:

import java.text.*;
import java.util.*;
public class TestClass {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("MM-dd-yyyy");
        dateFormat.setLenient(false);
        String dateString = "11-08-2002";
        System.out.println(dateString);
        try {
            Date date = dateFormat.parse(dateString);        
            Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
            calendar.clear();
            calendar.setTime(date);
            calendar.add(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH,1);
            System.out.println(dateFormat.format(calendar.getTime()));
        } catch (ParseException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        
    }
}

[Mary Taylor]

Thanks. I think many of the solutions to Date problems are verbose. I was making this too difficult, I see. I also need "yesterday" which should be easy with this code as a basis.
Thank you so much!