Java Week Day getShortWeekday(int dayOfWeek)

Description

Returns the short name of the weekday.

License

Apache License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
dayOfWeek	- values from 1 to 7 accepted (1 =Sunday, 7 = Saturday, 0 = empty)

Declaration

public static String getShortWeekday(int dayOfWeek) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
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import java.text.DateFormatSymbols;
import java.util.*;

public class Main {
    /**
     * Returns the short name of the weekday.
     * @param dayOfWeek - values from 1 to 7 accepted (1 =Sunday, 7 = Saturday, 0 = empty)
     * */
    public static String getShortWeekday(int dayOfWeek) {
        return getShortWeekday(dayOfWeek, Locale.getDefault());
    }

    /**
     * Returns the short name of the weekday.
     * @param dayOfWeek - values from 1 to 7 accepted (1 =Sunday, 7 = Saturday, 0 = empty)
     * */
    public static String getShortWeekday(int dayOfWeek, Locale locale) {
        DateFormatSymbols symbols = new DateFormatSymbols(locale);
        String[] shorts = symbols.getShortWeekdays();

        String today = shorts[dayOfWeek];
        today = today.substring(0, 1).toUpperCase() + today.substring(1, today.length()).toLowerCase(); //First letter upper case, others lower case
        return today;
    }
}

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