Question

I’m trying to parse a String to obtain 3 Integer but I have a Force Close and the LogCat says : ArrayIndexOutOfBoundExceptions.

Here is the concerned part of my code :

    dateModif = tvDateAffichee.getText().toString();

    String[] separatedDate = dateModif.split(".");

    mDay = Integer.parseInt(separatedDate[0]);
    mMonth = Integer.parseInt(separatedDate[1]);
    mYear = Integer.parseInt(separatedDate[2]);

I checked the value of the string with a toast and it contains values like, for example : 13.9.2011

The mistake comes from this line :

    mDay = Integer.parseInt(separatedDate[0]);

(If I put it as comment, it gives the same mistake frome the next line)

Thanks for your help!

Answer 1

String.split() takes a regex in which case . means “any character”. You’ll want to escape it like this: \.. And since you specify the regex as a String literal, you’ll need to double the backslashes: dateModif.split("\\.").

But it would be better to use real date parsing methods for this.