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user11955823
user11955823

Reputation:

How to check if a string is of yyyy-yyyy format

I have an ArrayList as below:

dates : [
"1981-1990",
"1971-1980",
"1991-2000"
]

I would like to perform a check: to see if the values in the list are year-ranges or not.

EDITED : Sometimes I get proper dates format like 'yyyy-MM-dd' and sometimes year-range. I just want my function to work in both conditions. It should identify it as a date if a date is present or year range. That's all

Upvotes: 1

Views: 211

Answers (2)

Youcef LAIDANI
Youcef LAIDANI

Reputation: 60046

You can use Year with Year::isBefore from java-time api like so :

String[] ranges = {"1981-1990", "1971-1980", "1991-2000"};
for (String range : ranges) {
    String[] dates = range.split("-");
    if (Year.parse(dates[0]).isBefore(Year.parse(dates[1]))) {
        System.out.println("Correct range");
    } else {
        System.out.println("Wrong range");
    }
}

After your edit, I would go with this solution here :

String[] dates = {"1981-1990", "2020-02-25", "1971-1980", "1998-02-25", "1991-2000"};
for (String date : dates) {
    if (date.matches("\\d{4}-\\d{4}")) {
        String[] split = date.split("-");

        if (Year.parse(split[0]).isBefore(Year.parse(split[1]))) {
            System.out.println("Correct range");
        } else {
            System.out.println("Wrong range");
        }
    } else {
        try {
            LocalDate.parse(date);
            System.out.println("Correct date");
        } catch (DateTimeParseException ex) {
            System.out.println("Wrong date");
        }
    }
}

Upvotes: 4

Lajos Arpad
Lajos Arpad

Reputation: 77063

Your ArrayList has String elements, so, you need to call the .split() method for each of them while you are looping your ArrayList. The split method returns an array of strings, so, on the resulting array you check the length. If the length is 2, then you have two years. If the length is 5, then you have two full dates. If the length is 4, then one of the values is a full date and the other is a year. So,

for (int index = 0; index < myArrayList.size(); index++) {
    String[] items = myArrayList.get(index).split();
    if (items.length == 2) {/*Two years*/}
    else if (items.length == 5) {/*Two full dates*/}
    else if (items.length == 4) {
        if (items[1].length() == 4) {/*The first is a year, the second a full date*/}
        else {/*The first is a full date, the second is a year*/}
    }
}

Upvotes: 0

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