Thread: DateFormat and SimpleDateFormat

Hi All -

Been struggling for this for the last 4 days or so...hoping someone can help.
I have a file that I am parsing dates from in the below format:

2012/58:20:36:41
2012/54:13:34:56
2012/54:15:08:16

I move these into an array (data) as a string. I want to take the string --> change it into a date object --> then print it. Clearly I am struggling with my understanding of what SimpleDateFormat does....when printing I want to maintain the same format that I have. Any and all help is appreciated. Thanks

for (int i = 0; i<data.size(); i++){
 
            DateFormat eachDate = new  SimpleDateFormat ("yyyy/DDD:HH:M:ss");
 
 
            try {
 
                Date d1 = eachDate.parse(data.get(i));
                System.out.println(d1);
 
            }    
 
            catch(ParseException pe) {
                System.out.println("ERROR: could not parse date in string");                        
 
            }
        }

If you define the data as an array, data.get(i) should be an object, not a string.Then eachDate.parse() need a string as parameter.

please tell how and what are you passing to this method !!
regards

Hi arvindbis,

I'm passing string variables that are stored in the Array data.

They are in this format:

2012/58:20:36:41
2012/54:13:34:56
2012/54:15:08:16

- Jason