Parsing a Date given in unknown format to standard format in java?

Question

hi im parsing a csv file with date(custom format), i have to parse the date given in anyformat(mm-dd-yyyy, yyyy/mm/dd , mmm dd yyyy) to a standard format dd/mm/yyyy.

The question is how can we find the format in which the date is given?

is there anyway to do it?

ps: i thinking of asking for the dateformat in the csv.

Answer 1

In your case, the string should contain just one of either "-" or "/" or " ", so you can dispatch based on that.