usage of substring in jstl variable

[liliya woland]

Hello,
i'm attempting to get a substring (last 4 chars of the string date) and call it var="year", can't get it to work so far. Here is what I have:

    
<jsp:useBean id="date" class="java.util.Date"/>
<c:set var="year"  value="${ substring(date, date.length-4, date.length) }" />

Could anybody please help me with this one?

[Christophe Verré]

You'd better use formatDate instead :
<jsp:useBean id="today" class="java.util.Date"/>
--> <fmt:formatDate pattern="yyyy" value="${today}"/>

don't forget to declare the prefix:
<%@ taglib prefix="fmt" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/fmt" %>