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Reputation: 18509

how to create new line between dateformat

i m creating date format like this :

SimpleDateFormat sdf =new SimpleDateFormat("MMM d, EEE, h:mm a");

i need a new line between date, month and time something like this 

thus ,sep 6
4:25pm

so i made the following changes :

SimpleDateFormat sdf =new SimpleDateFormat("MMM d, EEE,"+"\n"+" h:mm a");

it did not give me anything just it created it in one line like this :

thus ,sep 6 4:25pm

so i took format object like this 

SimpleDateFormat sdf =new SimpleDateFormat("MMM d, EEE,");
SimpleDateFormat sdf1 =new SimpleDateFormat(" h:mm a");

and did this :

sdf.format(calendar.getTime())+"\n"+sdf1.format(calendar.getTime())

but it again gives the same result

thus ,sep 6 4:25pm

calendar is a Calendar object.Any help will be appreciated!!

Upvotes: 9

Views: 8548

Answers (5)

Suragch
Suragch

Reputation: 512666

I see from one of your comments that your original solution actually works, but I had the same question when I came here, so let me add an answer to this question. (My formatting is a little different than yours.)

Date date = new Date(unixMilliseconds); 
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM d, yyyy\nh:mma");
String formattedDate = sdf.format(date);

The \n in MMM d, yyyy\nh:mma works because neither the \ nor the n are interpreted by SimpleDateFormat (see documentation) and thus are passed on to the Java String. If they did have special meaning you could have used single quotes: MMM d, yyyy'\n'h:mma (which also works).

Upvotes: 10

LaGrandMere
LaGrandMere

Reputation: 10379

Don't use \n, use :

System.getProperty("line.separator");

to get the line separator.

I found another source which tells that you can use 
 to have a carriage return.

Upvotes: 2

GriffeyDog
GriffeyDog

Reputation: 8386

I think Android literally needs \n to appear in the string, not an actual newline character. So, you need to escape the backslash in your Java string, so something like this:

String output = "Thus ,Sep 6" + "\\n" + "4:25pm";

Upvotes: 2

mprivat
mprivat

Reputation: 21912

If you're displaying to an HTML view, you will want to make sure you use an HTML line break <br/>, instead of \n.

Upvotes: 2

Ridcully
Ridcully

Reputation: 23665

Are you sure, that the \n disappears? At least your last try cannot have anything to do with the date format. Do you per chance create your output for a web page and should use <br /> instread of \n?

Upvotes: 1

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