Parse String date in (yyyy-MM-dd) format

Question

I have a string in the form \"2013-09-18\". I want to convert it into a java.util.Date. I am doing this

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(\"yyyy-MM         


        

Answer 1

I convert String to Date in format ("yyyy-MM-dd") to save into Mysql data base .

 String date ="2016-05-01";
 SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
 Date parsed = format.parse(date);
 java.sql.Date sql = new java.sql.Date(parsed.getTime());

sql it's my output in date format