What is the correct way to get the date from a string using java.time.*?

Question

Java

Hello!
There are lines like "some text dated 12/12/1990"
How to get this date correctly? whether to replace "." to "-" for that?
Thank you.

Answer 1

DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("dd.MM.yyyy");
Stringdate = "12/12/1990";
LocalDate localDate = LocalDate.parse(date, formatter);
Parsing a string and extracting a date from it is a separate task, depending on the format. Regular expressions will help.