GregorianCalendar object

[Eric Sexton]

If I have a GregorianCalendar object, and a method to get the date:

  
GregorianCalendar now = new GregorianCalendar();
int month = now.get(Calendar.MONTH);

Now I want to display a String representation of the name of the month. So if I got back a "0", then I want to display 'January'. Obviously, I don't want a huge "if if if" statement. Thanks in advance!

[Sainudheen Mydeen]

How about this

 String myMonth[] = {"Jan","Feb","Mar","Apr","May","Jun","Jul","Aug","Sep","Oct","Nov","Dec"};
  GregorianCalendar now = new GregorianCalendar();
  String month = myMonth[now.get(Calendar.MONTH)]; 

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Sainudheen

[Mani Ram]

I don't know whether any build-in methods / variable are available to do this, but in case if there aren't any, you can try this way.

String months[] = {"JAN", "FEB", "MAR", "APR", "MAY", "JUN", "JUL", "AUG", "SEP", "OCT", "NOV", "DEC"};
GregorianCalendar now = new GregorianCalendar();
int month = now.get(Calendar.MONTH);
System.out.println(months[month]);

[Eric Sexton]

Yeah. That will work for me. Thanks.

[Jason Menard]

Aside from the (in this case preferable) method of using an array as shown above, here's another way that will work, using java.text.SimpleDateFormat:

Calendar calendar = new GregorianCalendar();
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("MMMM");
System.out.println(sdf.format(calendar.getTime()));

[ September 30, 2003: Message edited by: Jason Menard ]