DaysOld

[Monika Balogh]

Hi,
I am working on the DaysOld assigment. I don't know how to convert a GDate object yyyy/mm/dd to Month, Date, Year. Is it something like this?

gDate.toString();
gDate.getLongFormat();

Could somebody give me examples what to pass and how to use the toString() and getLongFormat methods?
Thank you,
Moni

[Greg Harris]

hi monika,
i hate that i cannot help you more, but that is part of the Cattle Drive. we are not supposed to post any code related to the assignments here.
you might have better luck asking this question in the Cattle Drive Forum...
however, i can tell you that my solution for that program uses BOTH GDate and JDate. you will not need to convert GDate to a string.
try looking at the javaranchcommon API again to see what the GDate and JDate classes will do for you.
hope this helps!

[Marilyn de Queiroz]

I'm moving this to the Cattle Drive forum.

[Marilyn de Queiroz]

Have you seen this page??

[Monika Balogh]

Yes, I have looked at this page before. Can we talk about certain methods? I still don't get it how to use those methods. It must be pretty simple.
Thanks anyway,
Moni
[This message has been edited by Monika Balogh (edited September 25, 2001).]

[Marilyn de Queiroz]

toString()
Instantiate a GDate object
Call toString() on the object
What you have written is correct if gDate is a GDate object.
If you call toString on a GDate object you will see a date formatted like "2000/7/24". (per the javadoc noted above)

getLongFormat()
Instantiate a GDate object
Call getLongFormat() on the object
What you have written is correct if gDate is a GDate object.
if you call getLongFormat() on a GDate object, you will see a date formatted like "September 22, 1999". (again per the javadoc).

Does this answer your question? Can you be a little more specific about what you don't understand?

[Monika Balogh]

I did get it eventually.
Thanks for all your help!
moni