IllegalArgumentException

[dcusick]

What's up all? I am having a problem with a function I created. I have an array of dates, and I'm simply trying to format them in mm/dd/yyyy format. This is my function.

public String[] convertToDate(Object[] objArray) {
int i;
String[] tmpArray = new String[objArray.length];
Date d;
Format df = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy"
for (i=0; i<objArray.length; i++) {
try {
if ((objArray[ i ]!=null) && (objArray[ i].toString()!=&quot;&quot) {
d = Date.valueOf(objArray[ i].toString());
tmpArray[ i]=df.format(d);
} else {
tmpArray[ i]=&quot;&quot;;
}
} catch (IllegalArgumentException s) {
System.out.println(&quot;Illegal Date Format&quot;
}
}
return tmpArray;
} //End convertToDate()

The problem is, when I get to the line... d = Date.valueOf(objArray[ i].toString());... my program throws an IllegalArgumentException.. Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?

 

[idarke]

java.sql.Date requires the string coming in to be in a specific format (yyyy-mm-dd). You might check to verify that your array coming in is composed of strings in that format.