Let’s learn how to convert string to date in Java 8.
How to convert string to date in Java 8
Let’s see example in converting String to Date using LocalDate class and DateTimeFormatter class in Java 8.
Syntax:
LocalDate ld = LocalDate.parse(date, formatter);
parse() method returns the parsed local date, not null. Let’s see convert string to date in java 8 example.
import java.time.LocalDate;
import java.time.LocalDateTime;
public class Java8StringToDate
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
DateTimeFormatter dtf1 = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("d/MM/yyyy");
String strDate1 = "14/05/2007";
LocalDate ld1 = LocalDate.parse(strDate1, dtf1);
System.out.println(ld1);
DateTimeFormatter dtf2 = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("MMM d yyyy");
String strDate2 = "May-14-2007";
LocalDate ld2 = LocalDate.parse(strDate2, dtf2);
System.out.println(ld2);
}
}
Output:
2007-05-14
2007-05-14
Also read – Arrays in java