Check if a date is a valid future date.
As a developer we come across many scenarios where we want to validate the user selected date is the correct future date.Java 8 provides many useful classes and methods under Date Time API. Below code snippet checks if the date is a valid future date.
/** * DateTime function which checks for the valid future date. * * @author ajain5 * @param futureDate * : in dd-mm-yyyy or dd/mm/yyyy format * @return true if futureDate isAfter currentDate */ public boolean isValidFutureDate(String futureDate) { String date[] = futureDate.split("[\\/-]"); int day = Integer.parseInt(date[0]); int month = Integer.parseInt(date[1]); int year = Integer.parseInt(date[2]); LocalDate today = LocalDate.now(); return today.isBefore(LocalDate.of(year, month, day)); }
You can test the above code using below driver program.
System.out.println(new Ti().isValidFutureDate(args[0]));
Response after running the above program :
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| Current date : 22-01-2019 |
The above program was tested on 22-Jan-2019 .
