Java String to Date stringToDate(String date)

Description

string To Date

License

Apache License

Declaration

public static final Date stringToDate(String date) 

Method Source Code

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

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

import java.util.Date;

public class Main {

    public static final Date stringToDate(String date) {
        if (date == null) {
            return null;
        }//from   w w w . jav a2s. com
        String separator = String.valueOf(date.charAt(4));
        String pattern = "yyyyMMdd";
        if (!separator.matches("\\d*")) {
            pattern = "yyyy" + separator + "MM" + separator + "dd";
            if (date.length() < 10) {
                pattern = "yyyy" + separator + "M" + separator + "d";
            }
        } else if (date.length() < 8) {
            pattern = "yyyyMd";
        }
        pattern += " HH:mm:ss.SSS";
        pattern = pattern.substring(0, Math.min(pattern.length(), date.length()));
        try {
            return new SimpleDateFormat(pattern).parse(date);
        } catch (ParseException e) {
            return null;
        }
    }
}

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