How to get day,month,year from String date?

Question

I have a date on String, like this:

String date="25.07.2007";

And I want to divide it to:

String day;
String month;
String year;

What is the best way to do this?

Answer 1

One way to split a string in Java is to use .split("regex") which splits a string according to the pattern provided, returning a String array.

String [] dateParts = date.split(".");
String day = dateParts[0];
String month = dateParts[1];
String year = dateParts[2];

To get current date: You can also change the format of the date by changing the values passed to SimpleDateFormat. Don't forget the imports.

  DateFormat dateFormater = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yy HH:mm:ss");
  Date date = new Date();

Answer 2

java.time

The modern way is to use the Android version of the back-port of the java.time framework built into Java 8 and later.

First, parse the input string into a date-time object. The LocalDate class represents a date-only value without time-of-day and without time zone.

String input = "25.07.2007";
DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern( "MM.dd.yyyy" );
LocalDate localDate = LocalDate.parse( input , formatter );

Now you can ask the LocalDate for its values.

int year = localDate.getYear();
int month = localDate.getMonthValue();
int dayOfMonth = localDate.getDayOfMonth();

You can use the handy Month enum to localize the name of the month.

String monthName = localDate.getMonth().getDisplayName( TextStyle.FULL , Locale.CANADA_FRENCH );