Case Insensitive DateFormatSymbols for parsing

[Roger Riggs]

Hi Bernd,

Perhaps use java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter.

You can create a case-insensitive DateTimeFormatterBuilder using 
.parseCaseInsensitive().

https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/18/docs/api/java.base/java/time/format/DateTimeFormatterBuilder.html#parseCaseInsensitive()

Regards, Roger


On 7/15/22 8:17 AM, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I noticed that it is surprisingly hard to make SimpleDateFormat accept 
> all-uppercase month names while parsing. Even with a custom 
> DateFormatSymbols that’s hard because you can only specify a single 
> symbol for a month name. For parsing it would be good if you can 
> either specify a list of names like “June,june,JUNE” or have it allow 
> a special case insensitive configuration option. (The list would also 
> allow custom short forms like “ja” “fe” but not “ju”’
>
> Am I missing something?
>
> Gruss
> Bernd
> -- 
> http://bernd.eckenfels.net
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