Convert String month to integer java

Question

How do I convert a month string to integer?

On click method I want to display the date which is selected but if the date has an event it should display something mo

Answer 1

There are only 12 month, so just normalize the string and just do string comparison. I wouldn't try to over-optimize.

Answer 2

Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
cal.setTime(new SimpleDateFormat("MMM").parse("July"));
int monthInt = cal.get(Calendar.MONTH) + 1;

See

• IDE one demo