How to write a program that accepts a date in dd/mm/yyyy format and separates the day, month and year as seperate integers.

Question

Please write the program as simple as possible as I am new in this.

Answer 1

You can change the token delimiter of the scanner to "/":

import java.util.Scanner;

public class Program
{
public static void main(String[] args) {
Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in).useDelimiter("/");
System.out.println("Please enter a date in dd/mm/yyyy format: ");
String dd = sc.next();
String mm = sc.next();
String yyyy = sc.next();
System.out.println(dd);
System.out.println(mm);
System.out.println(yyyy);
}
}

Alternatively, you can use the split function:

import java.util.Scanner;

public class Program
{
public static void main(String[] args) {
Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
System.out.println("Please enter a date in dd/mm/yyyy format: ");
String d = sc.nextLine();
for (String elem: d.split("/")) {
System.out.println(elem);
}
}
}