Extracting month and year from dates
You are tracking monthly inventory for your electronics store. Extract the month and year from each date by applying date standardization!
This exercise is part of the course
Cleaning Data in Java
Exercise instructions
- Specify the format of
date1with single-digit month/day. - Specify the format of
date2with zero-padded month/day. - Extract the month and year from
date1anddate2.
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
import java.time.LocalDate;
import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;
public class DateStandardizationExample {
public static void main(String[] args) {
// Specify the format of date1 with single-digit month/day
LocalDate date1 = LocalDate.parse("1/1/23", DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("____/____/____"));
// Specify the format of date2 with zero-padded month/day
LocalDate date2 = LocalDate.parse("07-01-2023", DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("____-____-____"));
// Extract the month and year from date1 and date2
System.out.println("Month and year of " + date1 + ": " + date1.____() + " " + date1.____());
System.out.println("Month and year of " + date2 + ": " + date2.____() + " " + date2.____());
}
}