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jazz
date to string / split question
Aug 23rd, 2009, 7:53am  
Hi, i am using a library that seems to return a "Date" variable. Is this pure Java? couldnt find anything about it on the processing Site.  
How can in convert this into a String?

Thank you for your help

edit: have antoher simple question maybe i can just add it here.
I wanna seperate and split different Strings with a char, i always use ; or , but is there a char i can be sure of that it will not be part of my string to avoid any problems?
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bartk
Re: date to string / split question
Reply #1 - Aug 23rd, 2009, 9:03am  
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Hi, i am using a library that seems to return a "Date" variable. Is this pure Java? couldnt find anything about it on the processing Site.  
How can in convert this into a String?


The default toString() of a java.util.Date class, assuming that it is a java.util.Date you're talking about (there are other Date classes!), looks like this: 'Sun Aug 23 17:55:34 CEST 2009' in my Locale. You can "re-format" the String representation of a Date class by using the SimpleDateFormat class. Here's a demo:

Code:
Date now = new Date();
println("now = "+now);
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyy");
println("now formatted to 'dd/MM/yyy' = "+sdf.format(now));


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edit: have antoher simple question maybe i can just add it here.
I wanna seperate and split different Strings with a char, i always use ; or , but is there a char i can be sure of that it will not be part of my string to avoid any problems?


No, if the delimiter can be used as a separator in your String, it can also be used in the String itself. I'd use a 3rd party CSV parser if there's a risk of delimiter chars getting caught up in the String values.

Good luck!
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PhiLho 
Re: date to string / split question
Reply #2 - Aug 23rd, 2009, 9:06am  
Can be Date or Date...
Supposing it is the first one, you can use DateFormat to get precise control on the look of the string. Otherwise, dateObject.toString() might be enough for you needs...

Separators: you can never be sure, but using a control char is somehow safer, a common one is Tab (TSV).
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