how to format text from 01/12/1999 to 01121999 ?

[Steve Wutang]

i have a jlabel which shows
01/12/1999 (date).
i want to put this in a string that stores
the value 01121999.
how do i strip off the / from the
jlabel.getText() ?
Thanks

[Doug Gschwind]

The first thing to look into is the java.text.DateFormat class. That may be all you need.
You can also use a GregorianCalendar instance (from java.util package I believe) with a specific date in time (e.g. new Date()) and then work with the atomic pieces of information such as day of month, month, year, hour of day, etc.

[Doug Gschwind]

Oops!
I was answering a different question. You can use the indexOf() operation on String to find the location of a given '/' character, then just concatenate substrings of the original string that leave the '/' characters behind.

[Frank Carver]

or use my favourite StringTokenizer:

/** strip any number of "/" from a string
*/
String stripSlashes(String date)
{
  StringBuffer result = new StringBuffer();
  StringTokenizer tok = new StringTokenizer(date, "/");
  while (tok.hasMoreTokens())
  {
    result.append(tok.nextToken());
  }
  return result.toString();
}