Name: bb33257 Date: 05/15/97


Should add two methods to DateFormat.
One is a convenience method getFieldText.
The second is a way to find out the order of the fields,
implemented as follows:

// get the fields occur in the date format, from first to last
public static int[] getFields(DateFormat df) {
 Date someDate = new Date();
 SortedDictionary sort = new SortedDictionary();
 for (int i = 0; i < Calendar.FIELD_COUNT; ++i) {
  StringBuffer dummy = new StringBuffer();
  FieldPosition pos = new FieldPosition(needBugFix ? bugfix[i] : i);
  df.format(someDate, dummy, pos);
  if (pos.getEndIndex() != 0)
   sort.put(new Integer(pos.getEndIndex()), new Integer(i));;
 }
 // copy into array
 int[] result = new int[sort.size()];
 int index = 0;
 Enumeration enum = sort.keys();
 while (enum.hasMoreElements()) {
  Object key = enum.nextElement();
  Object value = sort.get(key);
  System.out.println ("getting " + key + ", " + value);
  result[index++] = ((Number) sort.get(key)).intValue();
 }
 return result;
}
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