I need to parse a string into a LocalDate. The string looks like 31.* 03 2016 in regex terms (i.e. .* means that there may be 0 or more unknown characters after the day number).
Example input/output: 31xy 03 2016 ==> 2016-03-31
I was hoping to find a wildcard syntax in the DateTimeFormatter documentation to allow a pattern such as:
LocalDate.parse("31xy 03 2016", DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("dd[.*] MM yyyy"));
but I could not find anything.
Is there a simple way to express optional unknown characters with a DateTimeFormatter?
ps: I can obviously modify the string before parsing it but that's not what I'm asking for.