using date as condition

I have to use date as a condition

like this
if "thisdate" < date =< "thisanotherdate"
// here date is wht i am reading from input line and thisdate and thisanotherdate are the boudaries between what i need to pick data from my input file.

thank you.

Can you expain what exactly you need us to tell? Like do you want a code to compare two dates? what is happening when you run your program?

You can use Date object. It implements Comparable interface, so should able to use compareTo().

i have to extract date and get/post from apache log comman format
(194.116.215.20 - - [14/Nov/2005:22:28:57 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 16440)
and then i have to count no of Gets and Posts within particular dates.
so in my program i am able to extract the dates but then i am not able to put the condition for which i need no of counts.

I can post my code if that will make more sense.

Do you get the dates as strings? You can use class java.text.SimpleDateFormat to parse the strings into java.util.Date objects. Then you can use methods before() and after() in class Date to check if one date is before or after another date.

Lookup SimpleDateFormat and Date in the Java API documentation.

note that java does not allow you to do

you have to break it up like so:

Thanks all for replies.putting together all thoughts i made through this.
I did use SimpleDateFormat and Date.
once again thanks.