calender validation

[sugard]

I am having a problem in finding out whether a date inserted by the user happens to be before the current todays date.

The problem is this.. The date that the user inputs is in the format of simpledateformat dd-MM-yyyy. Therefore i cannot use the date.before() since simple date format is of type calender. Also the date that the user is going to insert is going to be placed in a text field. Therefore i need to get it from there and compare it to the current's date. I tried to use the calender.getInstance(), though i did not suceed.

If someone can help me, it would be really appreciated. Thanks

[BigDaddyLH]

Demo:

import java.text.*;
import java.util.*;
 
public class CalendarExample {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws ParseException {
        Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
        Date now = c.getTime();
        DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
        Date then = df.parse("2008-01-02");
        System.out.println(then.before(now));
    }
}

To be more careful, I should have moved the current time back to midnight.

[BigDaddyLH]

If I had been picky, I would have posted this ;-)

The problem is this.. The date that the user inputs is in the format of simpledateformat dd-MM-yyyy. Therefore i cannot use the date.before() since simple date format is of type calender.

Huh? java.text.SimpleDateFormat parses strings into Date objects, so you can use before.

I tried to use the calender.getInstance(), though i did not succeed.

Insufficient data for a meaningful response.