Methods that can be used to convert String to Date Type in Java programming language will be examined.

Method 1: Use DateTimeFormatter:

Works in java 8 and above versions.

Example 1:

Import DateTimeFormatter first.

import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;

Then enter the date format for the string you are going to translate. For this code to work, the format to be created with the given string value must be consistent.
 

String date = "12-10-2016";
DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("d-M-yyyy");
System.out.println(formattedDate); 
System.out.println(formatter.format(formattedDate));

output:

2016-10-16
16-10-2016

Example 2:

String stringdate2 = "12-Aug-2016";
DateTimeFormatter formatter2 = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("d-MMM-yyyy", Locale.US);
LocalDate formattedDate2 = LocalDate.parse(stringdate2, formatter2);
System.out.println(formattedDate2); 
System.out.println(formatter.format(formattedDate2));

Example 3:

String stringdate3 = "Monday, Aug 12, 2019 13:25:31 PM";
DateTimeFormatter formatter3 = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("EEEE, MMM d, yyyy HH:mm:ss a", Locale.US);
LocalDate formattedDate3 = LocalDate.parse(stringdate3, formatter3);
System.out.println(formattedDate3); 
System.out.println(formatter.format(formattedDate3));

predefined formats

import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;

    try {
            String stringdate4 = "2019/08/12";
            SimpleDateFormat simpleformatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/MM/dd");
            Date formattedDate4 = simpleformatter.parse(stringdate4);
            System.out.println(formattedDate4);
            System.out.println(simpleformatter.format(formattedDate4));
        } catch (ParseException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

Output:

Mon Aug 12 00:00:00 EEST 2019
2019/08/12