Question

I have String variable which contains date. Now how to display July 15 from that string variable? (for example 2012-07-15)

String strdate = "2012-07-15";
SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MMM-dd");
try {
    d1 = formatter.parse(strdate);
    System.out.println(d1 + "---date first---");
} catch (ParseException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

Answer 1

Your parsing template does not match your example:

SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");

(with MM instead of MMM).

To output July 15, you can use a second formatter:

SimpleDateFormat output = new SimpleDateFormat("MMMM dd");
System.out.println(output.format(d1)); //July 15