I have a problem in SimpleDateFormatter and it will be nice if any one help me.
As we know a user can set any valid format to a SimpleDateFormatter.e.g "mm:dd", "MM/dd/yy" etc.
Now I want that if I have set a format to a SimpleDateFormatter (say "MM/dd:yy")and if I pass a string of numbers say "123456" it should format the string in the specified format.(ie. 12 should be taken as month 34 should be taken as day (can convert 34 to 30+4 or can throw error.))Similar to what MS Excel does when we set format of a cell of MS excel to DateFormat.
The SimpleDateFormat class contains a method parse(String, ParsePosition) which returns the formatted String. ParsePosition is only a wrapper class for an int poiting to the index of the character in the String to begin with.
I think that you will need 2 SimpleDateFormat objects, one to parse the string and one to write it.
SimpleDateFormat inFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("MMddyy");
Date date = inFormat.parse("123456");
SimpleDateFormat outFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");
System.out.println(outFormat.format(date));
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