Question

I’m running an application which gives me CSV logs as output. For the date field, it gives it to me in the following form:

“09/25/2012 08:47:46.983”

I want to read in the output data into a Java program, translating the output given and storing it as a long in my program. Does the DateFormat class or other similar class in Java allow me to specify a string in the above form? (I can write my own code to parse the above line, but I didn’t want to make bad assumptions about the form of the incoming string.)

Answer 1

public class TestTest {

public TestTest() {
    String dateString = "09/25/2012 08:47:46.983";

    DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy kk:mm:ss.SSS");

    try {
        Date date = dateFormat.parse(dateString);

        System.out.println("Date is: " + date.getTime());
    } catch (ParseException ex) {
        Logger.getLogger(TestTest.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
    }


}

public static void main(String[] args) {
    TestTest test = new TestTest();
}

}