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apex format string to data

Silly Skunk answered on July 11, 2022 Popularity 3/10 Helpfulness 1/10

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/**
	* @description Try to parse Data 
	* @author Arthur | 2022-07-11 
	* @param inDate 
	* @return Date 
	**/
	public static Date parseDate(String inDate) {
		Date	dateRes		= null;
		//	1 - Try locale specific mm/dd/yyyy or dd/mm/yyyy	
		try {
			dateRes 	= Date.parse(inDate);
		}
		catch (Exception e) {}

		if (dateRes == null) {
		//	2 - Reverse yyyy-mm-dd	to fr dd-mm-yyyy		
			try {
				List<String> dates	= inDate.split('/');
				List<String> reversed	=  new List<String>();		
				
				for(Integer i = dates.size() - 1; i >= 0; i--){
					reversed.add(dates[i]);
				}
				System.debug('reversed: ' + reversed);

				String finalString = String.join(reversed,'/');
				dateRes	= Date.parse(finalString);
			}
			catch (Exception e) {} 
		}
		
		return dateRes;
	}

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