OOP-1 question

[Gary Ba]

Hi,
I successfully integrated the classes given from OOP-1 assignment. However, I am looking at the programming part of it and I am struggling to separate the input date.
Here is my way of solving it on paper:

java DaysOld 2002-1-2

I want to separate the number between dashes so I can extract the year, month, day. I can use indexOf to find what the index of every dashes but I cannot find a method under String to get char up to the next dash, then next number to dash, etc.

Can someone help?
Garry

[Marilyn de Queiroz]

Garry Ba wrote:I want to separate the number between dashes so I can extract the year, month, day. I can use indexOf to find what the index of every dashes but I cannot find a method under String to get char up to the next dash, then next number to dash, etc.
Garry

I think the method you are looking for may be String.split() ... or you could use indexes and substrings (and substring lengths) ... if you're sure you need to separate those numbers.

[Gary Ba]

I think that will work but I cannot think of any other idea
Do you have any other suggestions to pull out of a hat?

Garry

[Marilyn de Queiroz]

I suggest that you look carefully at the classes you are supposed to use, GDate and JDate

[Gary Ba]

I have been staring at those two classes, GDate and JDate, but I do not see a constructor that take String year-month-day. The reason I ask how to separate using '-' dash.

[Gary Ba]

Marilyn,

Please disregard my last post/question. It finally hit me in my head. Got it!

[Carol Murphy]

we ned an emoticon for a head slap!

[Marilyn de Queiroz]