SimpleDateFormat: unparseable date exception

Question

After looking after several existing posts, I am still not able to get my SimpleDateFormat parser working. Here is the code:

SimpleDateFormat df = new Simple         


        

Answer 1

Check your input for non-printing characters, like tab (instead of space), etc. Sometimes the reason it can't parse has little to do with the formatting of the numbers and a lot to do with unexpected characters (that you can't always see).

Considering some people have already reported "works for me" (@Thanks Bozho!) I would strongly suspect unprintable characters in your input string. Who knows, you might have a vertical tab embedded in there somewhere!