What exactly are you trying to accomplish with this code?

Same question here. I just don't understand what you are trying to obtain, but I feel there are simpler ways to do it.

I have a list with iregular dates and i need to format them. Some have 2 digits like 07/09/11 others are like 7/9/11.
I got every working now but i used a small work around by adding a space in front.

For some reason it can't find 07 if there is no space before the zero and i don't understand why that is.

Indeed, it simpler and more reliable to use date parser and formatter than trying to address all cases with inefficient iterations...

1. String[] dates = { "07/09/11", "7/9/11", "07/9/11", "7/09/11", "07/09/2011" };
2. DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yy");
3. for (String date : dates)
4. {
5.   Date d = null;
6.   try
7.   {
8.     d = df.parse(date);
9.   }
10.   catch (ParseException e)
11.   {
12.     System.out.println(e);
13.   }
14.   println(d);
15.   println(df.format(d));
16. }
17. exit();