Re: Comparing dates from database

From:
Lew <noone@lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Fri, 24 Sep 2010 08:21:36 -0400
Message-ID:
<i7i51n$g0p$1@news.albasani.net>
On 09/24/2010 02:24 AM, ruds wrote:

Hi,
I want to compare 3 dates from my database. Actually, I want to check
one date with the other 2 dates if they are befor or after the first
date. I have tried using the before and after methods but I'm not
getting any o/p.
Here is the code for comparing: fdate, cdate& accdate are the dates
from database retrived using rs.getDate();

<%f((ifdate.equals("null"))&& (cdate.equals("null"))) { %> NA<%}
else{ if((fdate.after(accdate)) || (cdate.after(accdate))){%> N<%}
else if((fdate.equals("null")) || (cdate.after(accdate))) {%> N<%}
else if((fdate.after(accdate)) || (cdate.equals("null"))) {%> N<%}
else{%> Y<%}}%>

This code is from a JSP page.
Please tell what is going wrong.


First, there's Java scriptlet in your JSP. Bad.

Second, you didn't copy and paste your code: "f((ifdate.equals("null"))" is
clearly wrong.

Third, you don't show the type of 'fdate' - you compare it to a 'String' but
you use a 'Date#after()' method on it. Which is it? You can't have it both ways.

Finally, learn to format your code for readability, especially on Usenet posts.

--
Lew

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