Java Date Time - LocalDate parse(CharSequence text, DateTimeFormatter formatter) example

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LocalDate parse(CharSequence text, DateTimeFormatter formatter) returns an instance of LocalDate from a text string using a specific formatter.

Syntax

parse has the following syntax.

public static LocalDate parse(CharSequence text,   DateTimeFormatter formatter)

Example

The following example shows how to use parse.

import java.time.LocalDate;
import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;
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public class Main {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    LocalDate a = LocalDate.parse("20140630",DateTimeFormatter.BASIC_ISO_DATE);
    
    System.out.println(a);
  }
}

The code above generates the following result.

Example 2

The following code shows how to parse 'Jan 20 2014' to LocalDate.

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import java.time.LocalDate;
import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;

public class Main {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    String input = "Jan 20 2014";

    DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("MMM d yyyy");
    LocalDate date = LocalDate.parse(input, formatter);
    System.out.printf("%s%n", date);
  }
}

The code above generates the following result.

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