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

The following are the implemented program to search for the string and parse it to the date object.

import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

public class StringInBetween {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws ParseException {
        //"name+" at:"+Date+" Notes:"+meetingnotes" (name, Date and meetingnotes being variables).
        String test = "rama"+ " at:"+"2015-01-02"+" Notes:"+"meetingnotes";

        Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("at:(.*)Notes");
        Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(test);

        if(matcher.find())
        {
            String dateString = matcher.group(1);   //I'm using the Capturing groups to capture only the value.
            java.util.Date date = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-mm-dd").parse(dateString);
            System.out.println(date);
        }
    }
}