How to convert string month and year into complete date?

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I am getting month and year in string format from date picker, how can I convert it to complete date using any date formatter?

we need to see more code, it depends of how they look like... — ΦXocę 웃 Пepeúpa ツ, Feb 19 '16 at 18:59
What you mean by complete date ? In that case what should be the day (dd) ? — Midhun MP, Feb 19 '16 at 19:05
@MidhunMP : Complete date means something like "19th Feb 2016". — Sumit T, Feb 19 '16 at 19:10

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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You can parse a string into a date, therefore you need the format that associates the String and a date:

Use a dateformat to convert the string into a date:

Example:

String startDateString = "Feb 2007"; //this is the var comming from the datepicker
DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM yyyy");
Date startDate;
try {
            startDate = df.parse(startDateString);
            String newDateString = df.format(startDate);
            System.out.println(newDateString);
        } catch (ParseException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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answered Feb 19 '16 at 19:01

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I am not having day just have month and year ex: "Feb 2016". – Sumit T Feb 19 '16 at 19:03
then you can by default asume that it is always the 1st date of that, and parse it to a date – ΦXocę 웃 Пepeúpa ツ Feb 19 '16 at 19:05
Yea, that can work, I can do that when I am picking up date from datepicker but that's not an ideal solution. What if I want to convert it to default date format, I might give you error on parsing for different date formats. What do you think? – Sumit T Feb 19 '16 at 19:18
thanks for suggestion. I am doing it same but after parsing to ' startDate = df.parse(startDateString); ' I am getting milliseconds from it 'strarDate.getTime()' and then converting to new Date(). – Sumit T Feb 20 '16 at 00:43

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 19 '16 at 19:08

private DatePickerDialog.OnDateSetListener pDateSetListener =
        new DatePickerDialog.OnDateSetListener() {
            public void onDateSet(DatePicker view, int year,
                                  int monthOfYear, int dayOfMonth) {
                try{
                  SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy"); 
                  String dt = String.valueOf(dayOfMonth) + String.valueOf(monthOfYear) + String.valueOf(year);
                  Date d = sdf.parse(dt);
                  log.d(d);
                }catch(ParseException ex){}
            }
        };

I am hiding day from date on date set because I don't want to show it. — Sumit T, Feb 19 '16 at 19:16

How to convert string month and year into complete date?

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