java判断日期为空,在java日期比较中忽略任何空格或新行

I am trying to compare two dates in java. While the following code works fine, I would like to handle situations where there may be some alterations in the date format of the input dates.

For example, in the below code, the date format of the two dates are as yyyy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss am. But sometimes there are some additional white space/new line characters found in the input date and this causes exception.

java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "02/14/2013

07:00:00 AM"

The following is the code am trying to execute.

try

{

Date date1 = (Date)DATE_FORMAT_yyyy_mm_dd_hh_mm_ss.parse(slaTime); // usually the data comes as 2013/02/03 09:09:09 AM

Date date2 = (Date)DATE_FORMAT_yyyy_mm_dd_hh_mm_ss.parse(actualTime);// usually the data comes as 2013/02/03 09:06:09 AM

// a error occurs

if(date1.before(date2))

{

return "True";

}

else

{

return "False";

}

}

catch (ParseException e)

{

e.printStackTrace();

}

how to handle this?

解决方案

One of the simplest solutions is to strip all whitespace from the String version of the date before you parse it. Alter your date format to not include any spaces (yyyy/MM/ddhh:mm:ssaaa), and use this to parse the stripped string.

final DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/MM/ddhh:mm:ssaaa");

final String dateStr = "02/14/2013 07:00:00" +

"\n AM";

Date failingDate = dateFormat.parse(dateStr);

Date passingDate = dateFormat.parse(dateStr.replaceAll("\\s",""));