Is there a generic way to convert the SimpleDateFormat date format to a regular expression in Java?
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Is there a generic way to convert the SimpleDateFormat date format to a regular expression in Java?
No, nothing ready-to-use. And regex does not have knowledge about date constraints – for example what GMT is, or what am/pm is. For simplest cases you can use
\d{2}-\{2}-\d{4}(dd-MM-yyyy), otherwise stick toSimpleDateFormat(or joda-timeDateTimeFormat)