The following snippet of code uses this version of the parse() method.
The second parameter is the method reference of the from() method of the LocalDate class.
import java.time.LocalDate; import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter; public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) { DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("MM/dd/yyyy"); LocalDate ld = formatter.parse("01/10/2018", LocalDate::from); System.out.println(ld);/*w ww. j a va2 s .c o m*/ } }