Java Date from String convertToDate(String dateString, String format)

Description

convert To Date

License

BSD License

Declaration

public static Date convertToDate(String dateString, String format) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center and SemanticBits
 * /* w w w .ja va2s .c o  m*/
 * Distributed under the OSI-approved BSD 3-Clause License.
 * See http://ncip.github.com/c3pr/LICENSE.txt for details.
 ******************************************************************************/

import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;

import java.util.Date;

public class Main {
    public static Date convertToDate(String dateString, String format) {

        if (dateString == null || dateString.length() == 0)
            return null;

        SimpleDateFormat sdf;
        boolean defaultFlag = false;
        if (format != null && format.length() > 0) {
            sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(format);
        } else {
            sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");
            defaultFlag = true;
        }

        try {
            return sdf.parse(dateString);
        } catch (ParseException e) {
            if (defaultFlag)
                try {
                    return (new SimpleDateFormat("MM-dd-yyyy")).parse(dateString);
                } catch (ParseException e1) {
                    // TODO add better error logging here
                    e1.printStackTrace();
                }
            else {
                e.printStackTrace(); // TODO add better error logging here
            }
        }

        return null;

    }
}

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