Java - How to check if a value is of type Date

Question

I have a project requirement. There are values in a .txt as -

 02/01/2017 00:00:00

Now I need to have some rules to check if this value in the

Answer 1

You can use regular expressions to check the format

public boolean isDate(String s){
String pattern= "([0-9]{2})/([0-9]{2})/([0-9]{4}) ([0-9]{2}):([0-9]{2}):([0-9]{2})";
return s.matches(pattern);}