From string to date

Question

thsi is the string format of date 10-jan-2005 but i want it in the format of java.sql.Date date format 10-jan-2005
but its giving parse exception when i am doing that
try {
               dtTmp = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yy").parse(strTmp);
               System.out.println(dtTmp);
          } catch (ParseException e) {
               // TODO Auto-generated catch block
               e.printStackTrace();
          String strOutDt = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yyyy").format(dtTmp);
          System.out.println(strOutDt);
can you please help me on that as after getting the output in this format i am once again try to convert strOutDt in date format ,but its giving parse exception and i want the date format as 10-jan-2005

Answer 1

import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
public class datefr {
     * @param args
     public static void main(String[] args) {
          // TODO Auto-generated method stub
          String strTmp = "09/21/04";
          Date dtTmp = null;
          try {
               dtTmp = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yy").parse(strTmp);
               System.out.println(dtTmp);
          } catch (ParseException e) {
               // TODO Auto-generated catch block
               e.printStackTrace();
          String strOutDt = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yyyy").format(dtTmp);
          System.out.println(strOutDt);
          Date date =null;
          try {
               date = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yy").parse(strOutDt);
                    System.out.println(date);
               } catch (ParseException e) {
                    // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                    e.printStackTrace();
the ouput is as follows
Tue Sep 21 00:00:00 IST 2004
21-Sep-2004
java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "21-Sep-2004"
     at java.text.DateFormat.parse(DateFormat.java:335)
     at datefr.main(datefr.java:28)
but as i told you i want the ouput 21-Sep-2004 as it is but now in java.sql.date