Troy Campano wrote:

> Hello I'm a former ASP web programmer.  In ASP there is a function
> called cdate().  The CDate function converts any valid date and time
> expression to the variant of subtype DATE.
>
> For example:
>
> <% anydate = "June 26, 1943" %>
> <% =CDate(anydate) %>
>
>
> Would output:
>
> 6/26/43
>
> It basically converted all imaginable date formats into one standard
> format.
> Does anyone know of a function similar to this is JSP/Java??????


I suggest that you take a look at how this is handled in the
upcoming JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL), more specifically by
the I18N actions for parsing and formatting date information:

   <http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/doc/standard-doc/intro.html>

Hans
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