Is there anyway to parse all Date format?

Question

I have a string here which represents a date, but the problem is that it could be in mm/dd/yy or yyyy.MM.dd format, how can I make my parse to recognize all format might appear? Thanks in advance

Answer 1

use for java 1.4.01
try
ResourceBundle r = ResourceBundle.getBundle("sun.text.resources.LocaleElements",Locale.US);
/* ResourceBundle r = ResourceBundle.getBundle("java.text.resources.LocaleElements",Locale.US);
for java 1.3*/
String[] s = r.getStringArray("DateTimePatterns");
System.out.println(" &&&&&&&&&&&& "+s[2]+" ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ "+s[7]);
catch (java.util.MissingResourceException e)
System.out.println(" ###"+e.getMessage());
s[0] // full time pattern
s[1] // long time pattern
s[2] // medium time pattern
s[3] // short time pattern
s[4] // full date pattern
s[5] // long date pattern
s[6] // medium date pattern
s[7] // short date pattern