Java String to Date toDate(final String dateString, final String pattern)

Description

to Date

License

LGPL

Declaration

public static final Date toDate(final String dateString, final String pattern) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;

public class Main {
    public static final Date toDate(final String dateString, final String pattern) {
        final SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(pattern);
        try {//from   w  w  w.j a  v  a 2 s. co m
            return sdf.parse(dateString);
        } catch (final Exception e) {
            return null;
        }
    }
}

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