parsing - How to Read Time and Date from Text File in Java 5? -

i'm trying read data plain text file using java 5 se. data in following formats:

10:48 07/21/2011 

i've looked dateformat , simpledateformat, can't figure out straight-forward way of reading data date object.

here's have far:

import java.io.file; import java.io.bufferedreader; import java.io.filereader; import java.io.ioexception; import java.text.simpledateformat; import java.util.date;  class pim {      file datafile;     bufferedreader br;     string lineinput;     date inputtime;     date inputdate;      public pim() {          datafile = new file("c:\\data.txt");          try {              br = new bufferedreader(new filereader(datafile));              lineinput = br.readline();             inputtime = new date(lineinput);              lineinput = br.readline();             inputdate = new date(lineinput);                          br.close();          } catch (ioexception ioe) {              system.out.println("\n error data.txt file occured.");         }     } } 

am on right track here? what's best way this?

first concat 2 lines have this: string date = "07/21/2011 10:48 am"

dateformat formatter = new simpledateformat("mm/dd/yy h:mm a"); date date = (date)formatter.parse(date); 

this should work, can refer simpledateformat api more options.