Java Parse Date parseDates(String query)

Description

parse Dates

License

Apache License

Declaration

public static Date[] parseDates(String query) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
//License from project: Apache License 

import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

public class Main {
    private static final SimpleDateFormat DATE_FORMAT = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/MM/dd");
    private static final Pattern SPLIT_PATTERN = Pattern.compile("-");

    public static Date[] parseDates(String query) {
        String[] segments = SPLIT_PATTERN.split(query);
        List<Date> dates = new ArrayList<>();
        for (String s : segments) {
            Date date = parse(s.trim());
            if (date != null) {
                dates.add(date);/*from   w  w  w . j  a va 2s . c o  m*/
            }
        }
        return dates.toArray(new Date[dates.size()]);
    }

    private static Date parse(String source) {
        if (source.equalsIgnoreCase("today")) {
            return new Date();
        }
        if (source.equalsIgnoreCase("yesterday")) {
            Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
            cal.add(Calendar.DATE, -1);
            return cal.getTime();
        }
        try {
            return DATE_FORMAT.parse(source);
        } catch (ParseException e) {
            return null;
        }
    }
}

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5. parseDateRfc822(String str)
6. parseDateStrFormat(String strDate)
7. parseDateString(String dateStr)
8. parseDateString(String dateString)
9. parseDateString(String pattern, String dateString)