Use the setLenient(false) method in SimpleDateFormat. Actually it's a
method in the DateFormat superclass. There is a lot of info about dates in
this faq:
http://www.java.sun.com/people/linden/index.html#Date
<http://www.java.sun.com/people/linden/index.html#Date>
Zol Heyman
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeetandra Mahtani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, June 03, 1999 7:47 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: converting to Julian Dates
Hello,
I have a form in which a user enters a date in the format
mm/dd/yy.
Now, the servlet that takes the input from this form,
converts it to a Julian
Date(yyyyMMdd) before storing it in a table.
I have been doing this by the following:
..
SimpleDateFormat dat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd");
String date1 = req.getParameterValues("indate")[0];
Date date2 = new Date(date1);
date1 = dat.format(date2);
..
and now date1 contains the format in yyyyMMdd. Fine, but if
the user enters a date that is
invalid like 02/32/99, it doesn't catch an exception but
returns
19990304.
Is there any way by which I could catch an exception so that
I could inform the user that
the date is invalid.
Thanks
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