Question

I have a String a ="   December 2011   ";
There is a   before and after it.
How can I Convert it to: String b = "2011-12-1"

Answer 1

You use this code.It gives whatever you want to output.
You first remove &nbsp using replace function and after you have to just parse the your string.

 try {
                String a = " December 2011 ";
                a = a.replace(" ", "");
                SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("MMMMM yyyy");
                SimpleDateFormat SdfParser = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");

                String date =SdfParser.format(sdf.parse(a)); 
                System.out.println(date);
            } catch (ParseException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }