Date/SimpleDateFormat help need

[Sridhar Ranganthan]

Hi,

Iam having a string "02-March-2010" i need to find the specified string belongs to which format.

can any one help me how to write the Progarm ? Based on the input it should show the proper date format

output required :- dd-MMM-yyyy
Thanks

[Smitesh Shinde]

May be this can help

http://javatechniques.com/blog/dateformat-and-simpledateformat-examples/

[Sridhar Ranganthan]

Hi,

This is not really help me....

Thanks,
Sri.R

[Pushkar Choudhary]

Sridhar Ranganthan wrote:This is not really help me....

Sridhar, the link provided by Smitesh has a lot of examples. Is there anything particular that you didn't understand in it?

Also, show us what you have done so far, let us know if you are stuck somewhere and we'll try to help. Please show some effort.

[Thiagu Sin]

Pushkar Choudhary wrote:

Sridhar Ranganthan wrote:This is not really help me....

Sridhar, the link provided by Smitesh has a lot of examples. Is there anything particular that you didn't understand in it?

Also, show us what you have done so far, let us know if you are stuck somewhere and we'll try to help. Please show some effort.

Actually the link that Smitesh sent is about how to format a date in different forms but what Shridhar is asking is, when you get an input of date as String how are you going to identify the Pattern used by the String to format the date. Which is something that I have never come acrossed before.

[Rob Spoor]

That's because there are potentially limitless possibilities. There are a fixed number of field identifiers, but each can be multiplied indefinitely.

[Thiagu Sin]

Rob Prime wrote:That's because there are potentially limitless possibilities. There are a fixed number of field identifiers, but each can be multiplied indefinitely.

Ya true Rob, I don't know how Shridar is going to come up with an algorithm to identify the pattern, as you said the possibilities are limitless.

[Sridhar Ranganthan]

If this is not possible means, please help me
how to format the date with specified fomat

having a string array

    
             String a[]={"01-05-2008","05/01/2007","02-JAN-2009","Jan/05/2010","2010/04/01" };
             String requiredFormat="dd/mm/yyyy";

I need to format the string[] value with specified format, i tried with SimpleDateFormat also , its not coming properly
please any one help me program.

Thanks,
Sridhar.R

[Muneeswaran Balasubramanian]

Hi sri,
You use the date format as "dd/mm/yyyy".Its just wrong.You have used MM for denote the month.

Change the format dd/MM/yyyy insted of dd/mm/yyyy.

I hope you will got your desired result.

Cheers Munees.
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