obtaining a date from this string

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I need to obtain a Date object from this String:This is a example)

M-27\nJUN-2012  DayOfWeek-dd\nMONTH-yyyy

Its impossible? I dont know how to use simpledateformat for this..The \n is a line jump.

give us example of date representation in String – jmj Jun 26 '12 at 12:25 — jmj, Jun 26 '12 at 12:25
whats the length on `DayOfWeek`? – Kshitij Jun 26 '12 at 12:25 — Kshitij, Jun 26 '12 at 12:25
So the format varies and is encoded in the input? – Thilo Jun 26 '12 at 12:27 — Thilo, Jun 26 '12 at 12:27

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:04

The documentation for SimpleDateFormat doesn't seem to do days of the week as single letters. I would take a substring that removes that letter and the dash with it:

27\nJUN-2012

Then I would use dd\nMMM-yyyy as the string you use in the constructor of the SimpleDateFormat.

This should do exactly what you want. Since you have the day of the month as a number, the day of the week doesn't matter that much to you to create the date object. If you really want to know the day of the week, then see here: How to determine day of week by passing specific date?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 26 '12 at 12:36

Try following SimpleDateFormat:

String dateS = "M-27\nJUN-2012";  // your date string
SimpleDateFormat fmt = new SimpleDateFormat("dd\nMMM-yyyy"); // formatter
Date date = fmt.parse(dateS.substring(2));
System.out.println(date);

You can really drop out the day of week, because day, month and year defines this day.

obtaining a date from this string

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