How do a I take an input birthday string such as 02 26 1991 and make it into a Gregorian Calendar?
I tried parsing it first but it keeps giving me an error message so I'm not quite sure what I'm doing wrong. I also have other input data before this date. One is another string and one is a double value.
Use SimpleDateFormat to parse the date and then assign it to a Calendar.
DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("dd MM yyyy");
Date date = df.parse("02 26 1991");
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
cal.setTime(date);
The third line could be replaced with:
Calendar cal = new GregorianCalendar();
but I prefer the first version.
Use a DateFormat as shown here:
Example:
DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("hh:mm dd/MM/yy");
dateFormat.setLenient(false);
Date d = dateFormat.parse("06:23 01/05/06");
Use the parse() method of the SimpleDateFormat class. You can use setLenient(false) to force strict parsing.
