Modifing Date format

Question

hi,
I am trying to create a class that will take in a Date in a certain format and give it back in a different format (eg mm-dd-yyyy to dd-mm-yyyy) without using substring(). I am trying to get Month =mm
Date = DD and Year = YYYY and from there put them in the order required.
I was looking at the Calander and DateFormat classe's and have hit a brick wall.
Any help would be appreciated
regards
colin

Answer 1

you can use SimpleDateFormat to parse your date string into a Date object. Once you have a Date instance, you can easily retrieve month and day values:
Calendar date = Calendar.getInstance();
SimpleDateFormat d = new SimpleDateFormat("MM-dd-yyyy");
date.setTime(d.parse(string);
int month = date.get(Calendar.MONTH);
int day = date.get(Calendar.DATE);