Question

I am trying to parse a string on java .
the type that I have is

EEE, dd MMM yyyy kk:mm:ss z

like

 Sat, 10 Mar 2012 20:01:27 +0200

or it can be without the space

 Sat,10 Mar 2012 20:01:27 +0200

and I want to get string like this

  kk:mm dd/MM/yyyy

thanks a lot!
can you give an example how to do it without formatdate only with regular expression

Answer 1

This is much easier with SimpleDateFormat:

SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE, dd MMM yyyy kk:mm:ss Z");
Date date = formatter.parse("Sat, 10 Mar 2012 20:01:27 +0200");

SimpleDateFormat out = new SimpleDateFormat("kk:mm dd/MM/yyyy");
String output = formatter.format(date);