If you only want to compare yyyy-mm-dd you can use the java.sql.Date class, the valueOf method does the trick. It's perfectly safe as the sql Date class is a subclass of the Date class.

Check out the docs here for more detail.

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Gets a regular expression that'll search for any regexp pattern specified in the parameters.

Gets the rightmost substring, of the specified length, from a String object.

Method for get n random number's

Sometimes you need to remove slashes from POST variables which could contain arrays. The standard slipslashes-function only takes a string as parameter.

This function removes slashes from both a simple string and array variable.

Generate a random number or string in PHP.

Convert an irregular name=value pair string into a formatted array.

Given a string, you can return an Enum value

Originally found at http://codeproject.com/dotnet/EnumTips.asp?df=100&forumid=38264&exp=0&select=797671

Servlet returning an image.

Fixed the regular expression to check for more strict requirements.