Convert a string to a GregorianCalendar

Question

How do a I take an input birthday string such as 02 26 1991 and make it into a Gregorian Calendar?

I tried parsing it first but it keeps giving me an error message s

Answer 1

Use a DateFormat as shown here:

Example:

DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("hh:mm dd/MM/yy");
dateFormat.setLenient(false);
Date d = dateFormat.parse("06:23 01/05/06");

Use the parse() method of the SimpleDateFormat class. You can use setLenient(false) to force strict parsing.