Java String to Date stringToDate(final String string, final String format)

Description

parse the string to date

License

Apache License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
string	a parameter
format	a parameter

Return

Date

Declaration

public static Date stringToDate(final String string, final String format) 

Method Source Code

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

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;

import java.util.Date;
import java.util.Locale;

public class Main {
    public static final String YEAR_MONTH_DAY_HOUR_MINUTE_SECOND = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss";

    /**//from   w  ww. j ava2  s.  c o m
     * parse the string to date format:yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss
     * 
     * @param string
     * @return Date
     */
    public static Date stringToDate(final String string) {
        return stringToDate(string, YEAR_MONTH_DAY_HOUR_MINUTE_SECOND);
    }

    /**
     * parse the string to date
     * 
     * @param string
     * @param format
     * @return Date
     */
    public static Date stringToDate(final String string, final String format) {
        return stringToDate(string, format, null);
    }

    /**
     * parse the string to date
     * 
     * @param string
     * @param format
     * @param locale
     * @return Date
     */
    public static Date stringToDate(final String string, final String format, final Locale locale) {
        Date date = null;
        SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(format, locale == null ? Locale.getDefault() : locale);
        try {
            date = sdf.parse(string);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            throw new RuntimeException(e);
        }
        return date;
    }
}

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