Please help! java.text.ParseException:

Question

Hi everybody
why am i gatting java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "Jul 21, 2002"
String s = "yyyy MM dd";
SimpleDateFormat ff = new SimpleDateFormat(s);
java.util.Date mm = ff.parse( DateFormat.getDateInstance().format(new java.util.Date())) ;
System.out.println(mm.toString()); //Exception is thrown
thanks in advence

Answer 1

I didn't take time to look through your code too closely but here is some code that might help. The pullDate method reads a string from a JTextField (textField) and tries to return a Date. If it can't format it then it returns null. It tries to format the text based on the formats listed. If it can't format the text using one then it tries the next until it runs out of them. Change the formats to whatever you like. Good luck.
Jeff
private static DateFormatter[] altFormats = {
     new DateFormatter(new SimpleDateFormat("M/d/yy")),
     new DateFormatter(new SimpleDateFormat("MMddyy")),
     new DateFormatter(new SimpleDateFormat("MMM d, yy")),
     new DateFormatter(new SimpleDateFormat("MMM d yy")),
     new DateFormatter(new SimpleDateFormat("d MMM yy"))};
private Date pullDate() {
     String text = textField.getText();
     Date d = null;
     int i = 0;
     while(d==null && i<altFormats.length) {
          try {
               d = (Date)(altFormats[i++].stringToValue(text));
          } catch (ParseException e) {}                    
     return d;