Another format check :P

[Pan Niko]

Hello,

I need to check a String if has the correct date format (DD/MM/YYYY).

I have created

SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");

but now i dont know how to compare my String with dateFormat to find if is valid. Also i have to check if DD is from 01-31 MM is from 01-12

[Paul Clapham]

Is your requirement to check that the string represents an actual date? Or will you accept "31/02/2011" as valid?

[Pan Niko]

Not the current date, just a date in that format

[Rob Spoor]

Checking if a String represents a valid usually means parsing that String into a Date. There are several threads about that; I've posted in quite a few of these already.
And what Paul meant is disallowing invalid dates like February 31st. You can make the date format non-lenient to disallow this.