Convert date "yyyy-MM-dd" to "MM/dd/yyyy"

Question

Hi,
First of all thank you for helping in advance.
I am a new rookie in Java language. However, I have question regarding to converting the date format that I get from mysql to the regular US display date format.
The question is I got the date from mysql in "yyyy-MM-dd" and this has been assigned to a string type. For the next step, I would like to convert this string into the format "MM/dd/yyyy".
I realize there is a lot of posting and some sample code for this issue.
I have tried using the following code:
String cur_date = "2003-08-30";
SimpleDateFormat theinput = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
SimpleDateFormat theoutput = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");
System.out.println(theoutput.format(theinput.parse(cur_date)));
The header I have included:
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
I actually don't know what is wrong, and really need help on that.
Thank you.

Answer 1

Hmmm... you code seems to work fine?
import java.util.*;
import java.text.*;
public class DateTest {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    try {
      String cur_date = "2003-08-30";
      SimpleDateFormat theinput = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
      SimpleDateFormat theoutput = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");
      System.out.println(theoutput.format(theinput.parse(cur_date)));
    } catch (ParseException pe) {
      System.out.println(pe);
}produces the output
08/30/2003Regards,
  /Håkan