java - format date from 14 aug to YYYYMMDD

Question

Change the date 14 aug 2011 to the format 20110814 .. how can i do that in java ?

Here 14aug is a string ... String date="14aug";

Answer 1

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd");
String yyyyMMdd = sdf.format(date);

Reference: java.text.SimpleDateFormat

Update: the question by The Elite Gentleman is important. If you start with a String, then you should first parse it to obtain the date object from the above example:

Date date = new SimpleDateFormat("dd MMM yyyy").parse(dateString);