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I need to be able to parse dates in the form '980331', where the first
two chars are the year, second two the month, and so on. I figured I
could  probibly do this using by converting the chars to integers and
using the:

public Date(int year, int month, int date);

constructor of the date class (after tweaking the values to be in line
with  what the Date class expects), but this method is deprecated in
JDK 1.1.x!!

Is there any way to get the equivilant of this functionality in JDK
1.1? Or does anyone have any code samples that do something similar to
this?

regards

  [ bryce ]