Comparing dates.....Help.....Please

[Lenin Chada]

Iam trying to compare two dates i am getting the following error, can anybody please help me
java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "21-DEC-03"
at java.text.DateFormat.parse(DateFormat.java:324)
at Sample.StringCompare1.compare(Sample.java:121)
at java.util.Arrays.mergeSort(Arrays.java:1181)
at java.util.Arrays.mergeSort(Arrays.java:1188)
at java.util.Arrays.sort(Arrays.java:1128)
at Sample.Sample.main(Sample.java:75)
here is my code
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-mon-yy");
Date d1 = sdf.parse(r1[column]);
Date d2 = sdf.parse(r2[column]);
int result = d1.compareTo(d2);

[Bear Bibeault]

new SimpleDateFormat("dd-mon-yy");

"dd-mon-yy" is not a valid format specifier. Check out the JavaDoc for SimpleDateFormat for legal formatting.
hth,
bear

[Lenin Chada]

thank you that solved my problem
new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yy")

[Dirk Schreckmann]

...and thank you for sharing with us what you learned.