Java String to Date object Conversion

In Java, you can create a Date object from a String value using the SimpleDateFormat class. Here’s an example of how you can do this:

import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;

public class DateConverter {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String dateString = "2022-05-01 12:30:00";
        SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
        try {
            Date date = formatter.parse(dateString);
            System.out.println(date);
        } catch (ParseException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

In this example, we have a String value representing a date in the format of “yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss”. We create a SimpleDateFormat object that matches the format of the String value.

Next, we use the parse() method of the formatter object to convert the String value to a Date object. This method can throw a ParseException if the String value cannot be parsed as a valid date, so we need to handle this exception.

Finally, we print the Date object to the console. The output will be the date represented by the String value as a Date object.