Parse Date from String in this format : dd/MM/yyyy [to dd/MM/yyyy]

Question

I thinking what is the best way in Java to parse the String with this format dd/MM/yyyy [to dd/MM/yyyy]. The string with the [] are optional and dd stand for the 2 digit pre

Answer 1

you can do something like this -

String input = "02/08/2010 [to 31/12/2010]";
    java.text.DateFormat format = new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
    java.util.Date d = null;
    try {
        d = format.parse(input.split(" ")[0]);
    } catch (java.text.ParseException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    System.out.println(d) ;

if string with the [] is not present still input.split(" ")[0] will return the first string only.