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String to Date

Posted by Tomas Laurenzo on December 21, 2001 at 2:14 PM

Hi,

Both if you want to construct a Date object form String or you want to reformat a String pattern (string literal) you have to use the SimpleDateFormat class (java.text package).

e.g:
SimpleDateFormat dateParser = new SimpleDateFormat ("dd/MM/yyyy");
Date date = new Date(dateParser);

hope this helps,
tom.