🚀 go-pugleaf

Use of one of the regular expression APIs to build some kind of generic
verifier would be something I would look into..

qian_x_j <qian_x_j@cmmail.com> wrote in message news:3bdff856_2@dnews...
> Who can tell me a good way to verify the data type of a "String" can be
e.g.
> integer, date in java?
>
> Here's my way to verify the long data:
>     try{
>         java.text.Long.parseLong(anString);
>     }catch(Exception ex){
>         setFalse();
>     }
> And here's my way to verify the date data:
>       java.text.DateFormat df =new
java.text.SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
>       df.setLenient(false);
>       try{
>           df.parse(anDateString);
>       }catch(Exception ex){
>         setFalse();
>       }
> The codes looks ugly. And there is another problem: It can identify
> "2001-2-hree5" not parse to date, but it look "2001-3-3fjaflej" as a
correct
> date formate! So I must add the code ahead:
>    if(Character.isDigit(anDateString.charAt(anDateString.length()-1)) ==
> false){
>       setFalse();
>    }
>
> Any one can tell me the elegant way to do this?
>
>