Parsing dates in Java?

Question

I have dates in text format of the form dd-mmm-yy or d-mmm-y, where the months are the abbreviations in letters (for example, November 4-09 or 12-Dec-05, etc.)) I would like parse it to create a java.util.Date object.

Can this be achieved by using the java.text.DateFormat class? Or is there another easy way to do this?

Answer 1

You may need to use SimpleDateFormat to parse custom formats. This article explains the formatting details.

"d-MMM-yyyy" corresponds to 4-Nov-2009

Answer 2

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Answer 3

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, :

String dateString = "4-Nov-09";
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("d-MMM-yy");
Date date = sdf.parse(dateString);

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Check out SimpleDateFormat

examples