How to extract a date from a string and put it into a date variable in Java

Question

I have been looking around stack-overflow and various other websites for the solution to my problem but haven\'t found any suitable for my specific purposes and have been un

Answer 1

You could use parse like this:

String fromDate = "2009/05/19";
DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/MM/dd");
java.util.Date dtt = df.parse(fromDate);

this turns any(well formatted) string into a date variable.

the code is from here