Date format changes before storing as global variable

[Anonymous]

I have a tExtractRegexField which looks for a Date string like

 "(\\d{2}-\\D{3}-\\d{2})"

so it will find dates like 01-Feb-16 a.k.a "dd-MMM-yyyy"
That works but I need to store the date in globalmap so I add a tJavaRow as the next component

globalMap.put("MyDate", row3.ReportDate);

In debugging mode I can see the ReportDate as "DayOfWeek MonthAsString DayAsNumber 00:00:00 TimeZone Year"
Is there a way to specify the date format as "dd-MMM-yyyy" as the way to store the date in the globalmap

[cterenzi]

You can convert it to a string before you store it, but then you lose the flexibility of the date format.  You could also convert it to a string with a specific format before printing it.

[TRF]

Try this as the field seems to be of String datatype:

globalMap.put("MyDate", StingHandling.LEFT(row3.ReportDate, 11));

It should works.

Regards,
TRF

[Anonymous]

Does stringhandling.left just take the 11 chars from the left?
I'd prefer to store it as dd-MMM-yy in string or date format as I can parse it easily enough in tMap. I was a bit surprised the formatting changed as I had the output schema defined as date dd/mmm/yy but at least I know its getting detected as a date
How would I re-enforce the required structure on the string I store in  globalMap.put("MyDate", row3.ReportDate);
Java isn't my strong point