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How to find day from the week using date format?

 
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How can I find day from the week using date format like 27/02/2006. from this date format I have to find that day is Monday.
I mean using date format how we can find day(like monday, or tuesday or wednus day) from week.
 
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Please refer http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/constant-values.html#java.util.Calendar.YEAR
for constant values

[ February 27, 2006: Message edited by: karthi keyan ]
[ February 27, 2006: Message edited by: karthi keyan ]
 
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import java.util.*;

public class FindDay {

public static void main(String args[]){
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
cal.set(2006,2,27);
System.out.println("DAY_OF_WEEK =" + cal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK));

switch(cal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK)){
case Calendar.MONDAY:
System.out.println("Monday");
break;

case Calendar.TUESDAY:
System.out.println("TUESDAY");
break;

case Calendar.WEDNESDAY:
System.out.println("WEDNESDAY");
break;

case Calendar.THURSDAY:
System.out.println("THURSDAY");
break;

case Calendar.FRIDAY:
System.out.println("FRIDAY");
break;

case Calendar.SATURDAY :
System.out.println("SATURDAY");
break;

case Calendar.SUNDAY :
System.out.println("SUNDAY");
break;

}

}
}
 
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If you want to parse "27/02/2006" as it is,
You may want to have a look at :

SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
Date date = format.parse("27/02/2006");
 
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