Converting a string to specific date format and of date type

Question

I need to convert a string ( 20-04-2014) to date in the format DD-MM-YYYY of type date.

String date = "20-04-2014";

I need to convert it to a type Date. How to do this??

Answer 1

You can use SimpleDateFormat class like this.

    SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy");
    String dateString = "20-04-2014";
    Date date = formatter.parse(dateString );

look here for sample

Answer 2

You can use SimpleDateFormat to implement.

Refer to http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html

    String date = "20-04-2014";

    SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy");
    Date d = sdf.parse(date);