Parsing duration string into milliseconds

Question

I need to parse a duration string, of the form 98d 01h 23m 45s into milliseconds.

I was hoping there was an equivalent of SimpleDateFormat

Answer 1

The new java.time.Duration class in Java 8 let's you parse durations out of the box:

Duration.parse("P98DT01H23M45S").toMillis();

the format is slightly different so would need adjusting prior to parsing.