DateFormat in Java

[moonoo]

Hi ,
can soembody help in finding the month in String(e.g Jan , Feb) in Java when the input date format supplied in
"DD/MM/YYYY" format . I am using the SimpleDateFormat like
the code below . But i am able to get only the month on Integer . Any help is appreceated .
SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/Mon/yyyy"
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
try
{
java.util.Date date = df.parse(businessdate);
cal.setTime(date);
}
catch(ParseException ex)
{
}
int month = cal.get(Calendar.MONTH);

 

[bigDaftie]

If you're wanting to avoid checking the int to find out what month you've got ie 11 if statements and 1 else or however you want to handle the 12 months you could do something like this....

java.util.Date date = new java.util.Date();
DateFormat df = DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance();
SimpleDateFormat sdf=(SimpleDateFormat)df;
sdf.applyPattern("dd MMM yyyy"
String dateStamp=sdf.format(date);
StringTokenizer st=new StringTokenizer(dateStamp);
st.nextToken();
String month=st.nextToken();

System.out.println(""+month);


Then the tokenizer splits the String, one of the default delimeters is a space. The dateStamp string is "03 Oct 2003
" so you know you want the second token. So get the first one do nothing, the second is going to be your string month.
Just one idea,
BD

 

[toolkit]

Why so complicated?

    DateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM");
    System.out.println(sdf.format(new Date()));

Cheers, Neil

 

[bigDaftie]

ah yes, ok, that's a MUCH better way!!!!

 

[toolkit]

;-)