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I want something like this, however the date is supplied by the user:<br />

<pre><code id="code-172384">SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat(&quot;MM/dd/yyyy&quot;);
System.out.println(&quot;Today is &quot; + df.format(new Date()) );</code></pre>
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I want something like this, however the date is supplied by the user:


SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");
System.out.println("Today is " + df.format(new Date()) );

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I already have a method in place that passes a string variable that holds the date, but I just don't understand how to use that variable to process it using the code snippet above.
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I already have a method in place that passes a string variable that holds the date, but I just don't understand how to use that variable to process it using the code snippet above.

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I want to create a method that takes in a date variable from the user. &nbsp;Can someone show me how to do this in Java and then format it so that the final date saved is 10/16/2008. &nbsp;thanks.
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I want to create a method that takes in a date variable from the user.  Can someone show me how to do this in Java and then format it so that the final date saved is 10/16/2008.  thanks.

java: processing date variable

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