How to convert a string to date in Scala?

Program to convert string to date

// converting string to date in Scala
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat
import java.util.Date

object MyObject {
    def main(args: Array[String]) {
        val string = "2020-06-20"
        println("String is " + string)
        
        val dateformat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd")
        val date = dateformat.parse(string)
        
        println("Converted date is " + date)
    }
}

Output:

String is 2020-06-20
Converted date is Sat Jun 20 00:00:00 GMT 2020

Explanation:

Here, we have converted the string to date in Scala. For this, we have used the parse method in simpleDateFormat. After conversion, we have printed the date using the println statement.