Groovy String to Date

Question

I am coding this with Groovy

I am currently trying to convert a string that I have to a date without having to do anything too tedious.

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Answer 1

I think the best easy way in this case is to use parseToStringDate which is part of GDK (Groovy JDK enhancements):

Parse a String matching the pattern EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss zzz yyyy containing US-locale-constants only (e.g. Sat for Saturdays). Such a string is generated by the toString method of Date

Example:

println(Date.parseToStringDate("Tue Aug 10 16:02:43 PST 2010").format('MM-dd-yyyy'))