puzzled with how to convert ddmmyy string to dd-MMM-yy date

Question

I am puzzled with how to convert ddmmyy string to dd-MMM-yy date in java code.Example--

041110 as a string will be 04-NOV-10 as date.

Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Using SimpleDateFormat

Something like

DateFormat input = new SimpleDateFormat("ddMMyy");
DateFormat output = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yy");
String result = output.format(input.parse(inputString));

Answer 2

Why not use SimpleDateFormat?