Java Parse Date Pattern YYYY parseStringToDate(String dateString)

Description

parse String To Date

License

Open Source License

Declaration

public static java.util.Date parseStringToDate(String dateString) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*******************************************************************************
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 * This file is part of Ariadne Harvester.
 * 
 * Ariadne Harvester is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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 * 
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 ******************************************************************************/

import java.text.ParseException;

public class Main {
    public static java.util.Date parseStringToDate(String dateString) {
        java.text.SimpleDateFormat dfparser;
        dateString = dateString.replaceAll("th", "");
        dateString = dateString.replaceAll("nd", "");
        dateString = dateString.replaceAll("\\n", " ");
        dateString = dateString.replaceAll("\\r", " ");
        dateString = dateString.replaceAll(
                System.getProperty("line.separator"), " ");
        // Replace 2 or more spaces by 1 space, because otherwise the parsing
        // will fail.
        dateString = dateString.replaceAll("\\s{2,}", " ");
        try {
            // The one used by the LOM Java API
            dfparser = new java.text.SimpleDateFormat(
                    "EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss z", java.util.Locale.US);
            return dfparser.parse(dateString);
        } catch (ParseException e) {
            //
        }
        try {
            // The one used by java.util.Date toString method
            dfparser = new java.text.SimpleDateFormat(
                    "EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss zzz yyyy", java.util.Locale.US);
            return dfparser.parse(dateString);
        } catch (ParseException e) {
            //
        }
        try {
            dfparser = new java.text.SimpleDateFormat(
                    "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'");
            return dfparser.parse(dateString);
        } catch (ParseException e) {
            //
        }
        try {
            dfparser = new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
            return dfparser.parse(dateString);
        } catch (ParseException e) {
            //
        }
        try {
            dfparser = new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("MMM dd, yyyy");
            return dfparser.parse(dateString);
        } catch (ParseException e) {
            //
        }
        try {
            dfparser = new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("MM-dd.yy");
            return dfparser.parse(dateString);
        } catch (ParseException e) {
            //
        }
        try {
            dfparser = new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("dd MMM yyyy");
            return dfparser.parse(dateString);
        } catch (ParseException e) {
            //
        }
        try {
            dfparser = new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("dd.MM.yy");
            return dfparser.parse(dateString);
        } catch (ParseException e) {
            //
        }
        try {
            dfparser = new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("yyyy:MM:dd HH:mm:ss");
            return dfparser.parse(dateString);
        } catch (ParseException e) {
            //
        }
        try {
            dfparser = new java.text.SimpleDateFormat(
                    "E M dd hh:mm:ss z yyyy");
            return dfparser.parse(dateString);
        } catch (ParseException e) {
            //
        }
        // If all attempts fail, just return null.
        return null;
    }
}

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