Java/Groovy - simple date reformatting

Question

I'm new to Java/Groovy development and I have a simple string that I would like to reformat, however I get an 'Unparseable date' error when I attempt to run the following:

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat  import java.util.Date  String oldDate Date date String newDate   oldDate = '04-DEC-2012' date = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.S").parse(oldDate) newDate = new SimpleDateFormat("M-d-yyyy").format(date)   println newDate 

I'm sure it's something simple, but the solution eludes me. Can anyone help?

Answer 1

With Groovy, you don't need the includes, and can just do:

String oldDate = '04-DEC-2012' Date date = Date.parse( 'dd-MMM-yyyy', oldDate ) String newDate = date.format( 'M-d-yyyy' )  println newDate 

To print:

12-4-2012