Convert a String to Date - A Java Code Example

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This code example shows how to format a String to a Date object. The method convertStringToDate actually takes three arguments as integers, date, month and year, and then concatenates these values to a String date.
The String date is them passed to the parse method of the SimpleDateFormat object that returns a java.util.Date object. The SimpleDateFormat class takes a String format as input to the constructor.
In case the format fails a ParseException is thrown.

import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;

/**
*
* @author www.javadb.com
*/
public class Main {

    public void convertStringToDate(int date, int month, int year) {

        SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");

        String in = date + "/" + month + "/" + year;
        try {

            Date theDate = dateFormat.parse(in);
            System.out.println("Date parsed = " + dateFormat.format(theDate));

        } catch (ParseException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

    }
    /**
     * @param args the command line arguments
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        new Main().convertStringToDate(01, 01, 2015);
    }
}

The output from the code above looks like:

Date parsed = 01/01/2015

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