Convert String to Date

[Death Arte]

Good day!

Im new here and i would like to ask a little help from you guys.
How to convert String to Date?

Code:

SimpleDateFormat dFormatter = new SimpleDateFormat("MM-dd-yyyy");
Date dReportDate = dFormatter.format(myStringDate);

Eclipse display this error message:
Type mismatch: cannot convert from String to Date

i've read that everything found in google search but it still error.

PS: sorry for my Grammar.. Thank you and God bless you all!

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[Joe carco]

Looks like your in the wrong Forum. Your question has nothing to do with Servlets.

Seems like youre confusing parsing and formatting. To format a date you need a Date and not a String. If you want to create a Date from a String try this:

formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yy");
date = (Date)formatter.parse("29-01-02");

if you want to format:

Date date = new Date();
Date date = new Date();
formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yy");
s = formatter.format(date);

[Death Arte]

@sri ramvaithiyanathan && Joe carco

Thank you very much! My problem has been solved..

Sorry for wrong posting..

[Jesper de Jong]

Joe carco wrote:

formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yy");
date = (Date)formatter.parse("29-01-02");

The cast to Date is unnecessary; the parse() method already returns a Date object. Just write it like this:

formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yy");
date = formatter.parse("29-01-02");

You should avoid type casts as much as possible in your source code.

[Death Arte]

Wow! it really works.. Applying KISS principle... Thank you Jesper de Jong!