need a better way to get months out of a string

[Nadine Hossam]

Hi,
I need to extact Months names out of a given string, I can do it easily using regular expressions

something like:
Pattern.compile(january|february|.....).matcher("22January")

so that I can get the month's name found in this string but I need more professional code for doing so, I mean these months must be defined in the Date class but i dont know how to reach to them
any ideas?

[Jeffrey Spaulding]

Take a look at DateFormat and SimpleDateFormat

http://www.javaalmanac.com/egs/java.text/FormatDate.html

J.