How does a parse method in Date class work

[kiran mohan]

hai guys , how does a parse method of a date class work, i am totally confused how does it work.

plz check out this program and plz help me how does the parse method works


public class DateProg
{
psnm(String args[])
{
String date="050716"
ParsePosition p = new ParsePosition(0);
SimpleDateFormat sdate=new SimpleDateFormat("yyMMdd");
Date dt = sdate.parse(date,p);
System.out.println(sdate.format(dt));
sdate.applyPattern("yyyyMMdd");
System.out.println(sdate.format(dt));
}
}

[Richard Anderson]

So what results do you get when you run this program? I would change the method signature of your method to:
public static void main (String[] args)
and add a semicolon after 050716.

Let me know if what you get is what you intended.