converting String ex. 08/06/2006 to an integer.

well, you could use a SimpleDateFormat to create an instance of Date from the string and then call the getTime method on that Date instance. However, that gives you a long rather then an int. Not sure what your requirement is for getting it as an int...

well the int would be 08062006i have to get rid of the slashes, i dunno how

> well the int would be 08062006> > i have to get rid of the slashes, i dunno howYou mean 8062006.

> Do you mean 08062005 ?> > And if it is a number, it would be no leading zero,> right ?> Otherwise, you just need a string without the slashes> ?Right. Numbers don't have leading zeroes.

You can use String's replaceAll method to get rid of the slashes and leading zero, and then Integer.parseInt to convert the result to an int.But why are you doing this? What are you trying to accomplish?

> Let me make a guess, you don't want to change it to> an integer but would like to change the data> representation format to ddMMyyyy ?He's been sending some conflicting messages. It's not clear whether he wants the int 8062006 or the String "08062006".