How to convert "April 30,2013" into date object?

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String str2="April 30, 2013";      
simpleDateFormat s= new simpleDateFormat();      
SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");    
SimpleDateFormat formatter2 = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");   
Date dateObject = null;

I have string like "April 30,2013", I am getting this as string from form. I want to convert this into date object as 04/30/2013. Is there any way to do it?

I tried with simpleDateFormat() but I didn't found proper output.

Possible duplicate of [Parse String to Date with Different Format in Java](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/882420/parse-string-to-date-with-different-format-in-java) and also: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4216745/java-string-to-date-conversion — Tom, Apr 24 '17 at 15:47

jmj · Answer 1 · 2013-06-11T17:43:29.253

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Use MMMMM dd, yyyy to parse and MM/dd/yyyy to format

edited Jun 11 '13 at 17:43

answered Jun 11 '13 at 17:22

jmj

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see the related section click on any of those they will give you sample – jmj Jun 11 '13 at 17:24
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You need to use `MMMM`, not `MMM` – Pradeep Pati Jun 11 '13 at 17:39
after parsing and format it is in string form ,how to convert it into date object – user2032464 Jun 11 '13 at 17:41
parsing is converting from `String` to `Date` – jmj Jun 11 '13 at 17:41
anything more that 3 `M` is all the same. – Pradeep Pati Jun 11 '13 at 17:44
It probably should be parsed as `d`, not `dd`. E.g. you're more likely to encounter April 1, 2013 than `April 01, 2013. Should at least mention that the question asker should think about which is needed. – Tim S. Jun 11 '13 at 17:45
@JigarJoshi http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html#text – Pradeep Pati Jun 11 '13 at 17:45

Pradeep Pati · Answer 2 · 2013-06-11T17:51:07.660

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Use the following code.

String str2="April 30, 2013";      
SimpleDateFormat input = new SimpleDateFormat("MMMM dd, yyyy");    
SimpleDateFormat output = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");   
Date date = input.parse(str2);
System.out.println(output.format(date));

edited Jun 11 '13 at 17:51

answered Jun 11 '13 at 17:39

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grepit · Answer 3 · 2013-06-11T17:49:14.557

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This is how you can convert it String date to Date object:

    SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("MMMM d,yyyy");
    SimpleDateFormat yourNewDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy"); 
    Date date = dateFormat.parse("April 30,2013");
    System.out.println(yourNewDateFormat.format(date));

edited Jun 11 '13 at 17:49

answered Jun 11 '13 at 17:35

grepit

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Doesn't answer the question, very broad answer. – Pradeep Pati Jun 11 '13 at 17:35
please add comment it you are going to mark it down , so I can better help – grepit Jun 11 '13 at 17:36
@PradeepPati I have modified it please take a look. I hope my changes/answer is specific now. – grepit Jun 11 '13 at 17:42
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@PradeepPati take a look now ? any better ? – grepit Jun 11 '13 at 17:50
this will give you again string, i want the final output as Date object in the specified format – user2032464 Jun 11 '13 at 17:58
@user2032464 the "date" is a date object in above code...the yourNewDateFormat is just using to format to string in a format you asked for. So, you can just use the "date" object if you only need it as a date object some where in your code – grepit Jun 11 '13 at 18:03
but here the problem is i am getting date object with value Fri Mar 08 00:00:00 EST 2013 .i have to compare this value with other date which is in the following format 2013-03-08 02:58:27.197. how i ll compare these dates..? – user2032464 Jun 11 '13 at 18:41

How to convert "April 30,2013" into date object?

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