Please give me example of delimiter in scanner

Question

Please anyone give me information,I need an example of Scanner method where I can validate an integer date with delimiter
example -
dd-mm-yyyy The dash "-" must come in between the dates while the user types the date like 27- 4 -

Answer 1

I am trying to insert a particular date from scanner method but I am getting error as incompatible type found String expected Date, I tried parser but it didn't work, please check the code and let me can you correct it, I want to enter date through scanner date like 09-06-2008
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.Date;
public class Example
// instance variables - replace the example below with your own
Scanner scan=new Scanner(System.in);
public void date()
Date date = new Date();
date = scan.next();
String DATE_FORMAT = "MM/dd/yyyy";
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(DATE_FORMAT);
System.out.println("Today is " + sdf.format(date) );
}