ID: 1002 - A Simple String to Date parser
Posted by xphree on Mon Feb 22 14:41:12 UTC 2010.
Language scala
class DateConverter(str:String) {
import java.util.Date
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat
def toDate() : Date = {
val sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd")
sdf.parse(str)
}
}
implicit def date2string(str:String) = new DateConverter(str)
/* Test
scala> "19840725".toDate
res2: java.util.Date = Wed Jul 25 00:00:00 COT 1984
*/