How to check a date is within range of dates ?

[Deepak Kumar]

Hi All,

I have a date for example 2007/10/04 in YYYY/MM/DD format,
and start date as 2008/08/12(YYYY/MM/DD),
end date as 2008/08/19(YYYY/MM/DD).

How to check wheather this date 2007/10/04 falls between 2008/08/12 and 2008/08/19?

Thanks & Regards,
Deepak

[Jesper de Jong]

One way to do this would be:

1. Parse all those strings with dates into Date objects using SimpleDateFormat
2. Use the before() and/or after() methods of class Date to compare the Date objects

[Piet Verdriet]

I presume these date's are represented as Strings. If so, parse them to java.util.Date [1] objects using the (inherited) parse(String) method from the java.text.SimpleDateFormat [2] class.
Now you have three Date objects and you can see if one of them lies in between the other two dates by using Date's before(Date) and after(Date) methods.

Good luck.

[1] http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html
[2] http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/util/Date.html

[Deepak Kumar]

Thanks a lot, Its working!!!

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