Convert String Month To Integer Java

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 more about the ev

Solution 1:

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

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• IDE one demo

Solution 2:

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