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I'm trying to convert a date-string, like "14-05-2007", to a Date object using the SimpleDateFormat class and the SimpleDateFormat.parse method.

There are a few ways the date-string can be formated, and i need to get the correct correspondig date. This is the code i'm using atm:

package com.upjlib.audio.tags.utils;
 
import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.GregorianCalendar;
 
import com.upjlib.audio.tags.InvalidTagException;
 
public class DateFormat {
 
    public GregorianCalendar date = null;
 
    public DateFormat() {
 
    }
 
    public DateFormat(String format) throws InvalidTagException {
        Date date = null;
        if (date == null) {
            try {
                date = tryFormat(format, "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss");
            } catch (ParseException e) {
            }
        }
        if (date == null) {
            try {
                date = tryFormat(format, "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm");
            } catch (ParseException e) {
            }
        }
        if (date == null) {
            try {
                date = tryFormat(format, "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH");
            } catch (ParseException e) {
            }
        }
        if (date == null) {
            try {
                date = tryFormat(format, "yyyy-MM-dd");
            } catch (ParseException e) {
            }
        }
        if (date == null) {
            try {
                date = tryFormat(format, "yyyy-MM");
            } catch (ParseException e) {
            }
        }
        if (date == null) {
            try {
                date = tryFormat(format, "yyyy");
            } catch (ParseException e) {
            }
        }
 
        if (date == null) {
            throw new InvalidTagException("Invalid date format found: "
                    + format);
        } else {
            this.date = new GregorianCalendar();
            this.date.setTime(date);
        }
    }
 
    private Date tryFormat(String format, String pattern) throws ParseException {
        SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(pattern);
        return sdf.parse(format);
    }
 
    public GregorianCalendar getDate() {
        return date;
    }
 
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {
            DateFormat df = new DateFormat("12/");
            System.out.println(df.getDate().getTime());
        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.out.println(e.getMessage());
        }
    }
} 

When running this script, with an invalid date-string "12/", it still parses it as a valid date-string instead of throwing an InvalidTagException or ParseException. I found out that the last date-pattern ("yyyy") matches anything that is passed on to the SimpleDateFormat.parse method as long as it's not an empty String.

So now my question is: is there a way to get an exact match of the entered date-string and the date-pattern? It says in the manual that the SimpleDateFormat.parse method doesn't always use all characters of the entered date-string, so....

Thanks in advance