Konnor

What would you guys recommend as being the best way to error handle precise inputs?

for example my program ask the user for a date, which must be of the form '2006-03-11' (yyyy-mm-dd)

it also asks for a location and destination. Is there anyways I can check for dodgy inputs such as 'asadsddddddewrew'

Many thanks,

Jimbo

What kind of user interface do you have? Console? Swing? Either way, for the date, I'd suggest taking a look at the DateFormat class. For the other inputs, it depends on if you have a known set of locations or if the user can input anywhere they want (like Ulaanbaatar, or Ouagadougou).

DaWei

ROFL, Jimbo! You made me Google those! Ulaanbaatar is my favorite, I'm goin' if it's the last thing I do!

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Arevos

SimpleDateFormat would seem to be the class to use for parsing dates.

Jimbo

I had to look up the actual spellings on Wikipedia, couldnt remember exactly what they were...