How to calculate the number of months between two string as yyyymm

Question

Dear all,
I have two month string like yyyymm e.g. 201003 -- 201105. Now I want to calculate the number of months bertween these two month string? How can I do that? Thanks.

Answer 1

888099 wrote:
Hi,
Hope this will help :
     public static void main(String[] args) {
          Calendar cal1 = new GregorianCalendar(2010, 02, 01);
          Calendar cal2 = new GregorianCalendar(2011, 04, 01);
          int years = cal1.get(Calendar.YEAR) - cal2.get(Calendar.YEAR);
          int months = cal1.get(Calendar.MONTH) - cal2.get(Calendar.MONTH);
          System.out.println("number of months : "+Math.abs(years*12 + months));
     }Or with only Strings :
     public static void main(String[] args) {
          String s1 = "201002";
          String s2 = "201104";
          int years = Integer.valueOf(s1.substring(0,4)) - Integer.valueOf(s2.substring(0,4));
          int months = Integer.valueOf(s1.substring(4)) - Integer.valueOf(s2.substring(4));
          System.out.println("number of month : "+Math.abs(years*12 + months));
     }Edited by: 888099 on 28 sept. 2011 05:49Full code solutions will not help the OP, he will be back here with a different Date question. Posters here try to nudge the OP to figure out the solution himself.