Unparseable date exception

[Divya Sanjeev]

Hi All,

I tried this piece of code but it is giving me Unparseable date exception. Can you please help me out?

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;

public class DateDemo {
	
	public static String convertDDMMMYYtoDDMMYYYY(String dates){
		String newdate="";
		//System.out.println("dates:"+dates);
		try{
			SimpleDateFormat format1 = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy");
			SimpleDateFormat format2 = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yyyy");
			Date date = format2.parse(dates);
			newdate=format1.format(date);
		}
		catch(Exception e){
			System.out.println(e.getMessage());
		}
		return newdate;
	}
		
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		DateDemo dd = new DateDemo();
		dd.convertDDMMMYYtoDDMMYYYY("21JUN2010");
	}

}

[Mala Gupta]

Divya,

Please use the code tag to post your tag. This tag retains the code indentation.

The format of your date 'dd-MMM-yyyy' does not matches with the exact value that you pass to it, i.e., '21JUN2010'. Either remove hyphens from the date format, or add hyphens to the actual date value.

Date format 'dd-MMM-yyyy' will correctly parse value '21-JUN-2010'. And Date format 'ddMMMyyyy' will correctly parse value '21JUN2010'

cheers
Mala

[Divya Sanjeev]

Hi Mala,

Thanks a lot for the suggestion. I had missed hyphen in the date format.

Cheers,
Divya