CODEWITHSUNDEEP
java
Ramesh
Ramesh

Reputation: 2337

Parsing date in java

I am trying to parse this "06th Oct 2013" date using java.

String[] formatStrings = {"dd MMM yyyy","dd MMMM yyyy hh:mm"};
    public Date tryParse(String dateString)
    {
        for (String formatString : formatStrings)
        {
            try
            {
                return new SimpleDateFormat(formatString).parse(dateString);
            }
            catch (ParseException e) {}
        }

        return null;
    }

I tried "ddth MMM yyyy" too it was not working.

Any idea to parse it.

Answer:

use quotes for string.

"dd'th' MMM yyyy"

Upvotes: 1

Views: 348

Answers (4)

Abhijith Nagarajan
Abhijith Nagarajan

Reputation: 4030

Use below format along with Locale if needed

new SimpleDateFormat("dd'th' MMM YYYY");

Upvotes: 0

Milan Baran
Milan Baran

Reputation: 4222

Just add to your formatStrings following pattern "dd'th' MMM yyyy". Well, but it won't solve problem with date like 01st Oct 2013 and 02nd Oct 2013. You can add "dd'st' MMM yyyy" and so one, but isn't elegant.

I'll will update this post when I solve it.

UPDATE This would be best for me:

  String[] formatStrings = {"dd MMM yyyy","dd MMMM yyyy hh:mm"};
  String[] forbiddenStrings = {"st","nd","rd","th"};
  public Date tryParse(String dateString)
  {
    for(String remove : forbiddenStrings) {
      dateString = dateString.replaceAll(remove,"");
    }

    for (String formatString : formatStrings)
    {
      try
      {
        return new SimpleDateFormat(formatString).parse(dateString);
      }
      catch (ParseException e) {}
    }

    return null;
  }

Upvotes: 0

Husman
Husman

Reputation: 6909

String date =  "06th Oct 2013";
date = date.substring(0,2) + date.substring(4);

That will remove the th or whatever characters in the date that's impeding the parsing.

Upvotes: 0

Rong Nguyen
Rong Nguyen

Reputation: 4189

You can use DateUtils, with Dateutils you can code as:

String str = "06th Oct 2013";
String[] strArrFormat = {"dd'st' MMM yyyy","dd'nd' MMM  yyyy","dd'th' MMM  yyyy","dd'rd' MMM yyyy"};
DateUtils tmpDU = new DateUtils();
System.out.print("" + tmpDU.parseDate(str,strArrFormat));

See also:

Upvotes: 1

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