How to parse date with optional characters in format

Question

I have the following two dates:

• 8 Oct. 2009
• 13 May 2010

I am using Jackson to convert the date from an rest api to joda Datetime.

Answer 1

There would also be a different way by fixing the string for parsing:

String date = "13 May. 2009";
DateTime result = DateTime.parse(date.replace(".",""),
DateTimeFormat.forPattern("dd MMM yyyy"));