Regarding conversion of String to Date

Question

Hi
Ravi here and I am getting the following exception when i am working with String to date conversion.As i am working in LAN this code is working for all others .This problem is with my system only.This is not supporting with yyyy-MM-dd format.One more thing in my system only we installed VisualStudio.Is that a problem for this exception.I am using Myeclipse
Plzzzzzzzzzzz help me I got strucked .
Thanks in advance
Code:
public void testSaveDates() throws HibernateException, ParseException{
try{
Date date=new Date();
String str1 ="2006-05-06";
Date dateFormatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy'-'MM'-'dd").parse(str1);;
System.out.println(dateFormatter);
catch(Exception e){
e.printStackTrace();
Exception:
java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "2006-05-06"
     at java.text.DateFormat.parse(DateFormat.java:335)
     at chaitanya.MyTest.testSaveDates(MyTest.java:282)
     at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
     at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
     at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
     at junit.framework.TestCase.runTest(TestCase.java:154)
     at junit.framework.TestCase.runBare(TestCase.java:127)
     at junit.framework.TestResult$1.protect(TestResult.java:106)
     at junit.framework.TestResult.runProtected(TestResult.java:124)
     at junit.framework.TestResult.run(TestResult.java:109)
     at junit.framework.TestCase.run(TestCase.java:118)
     at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:421)
     at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.run(RemoteTestRunner.java:305)
     at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.main(RemoteTestRunner.java:186)

Answer 1

Date date=new Date();You don't need this line.
Date dateFormatter = new
er = new
SimpleDateFormat("yyyy'-'MM'-'dd").parse(str1);;As already told, you don't need the single quotes. And you don't need two semi-colons - that's unnecessary.
I just wrote a sample code to test that out. Check it and see for yourself.
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
public class Test {
     public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
          System.out.println(new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd").parse("2005-04-18"));
          System.out.println(new SimpleDateFormat("'yyyy'-'MM'-'dd'").parse("2005-04-18"));
}Output:
Mon Apr 18 00:00:00 EDT 2005
Exception in thread "main" java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "2005-04-18"
        at java.text.DateFormat.parse(DateFormat.java:335)
        at Test.main(Test.java:6)I wonder why it is not feasible to write a quick sample code.