Is there a faster method to match an arbitrary String to month name in Java
- by jonc
Hello, I want to determine if a string is the name of a month and I want to do it relatively quickly. The function that is currently stuck in my brain is something like:
boolean isaMonth( String str ) {
String[] months = DateFormatSymbols.getInstance().getMonths();
String[] shortMonths = DateFormatSymbols.getInstance().getShortMonths();
int i;
for( i = 0; i<months.length(); ++i;) {
if( months[i].equals(str) ) return true;
if( shortMonths[i].equals(str ) return true;
}
return false;
}
However, I will be processing lots of text, passed one string at a time to this function, and most of the time I will be getting the worst case of going through the entire loop and returning false.
I saw another question that talked about a Regex to match a month name and a year which could be adapted for this situation. Would the Regex be faster? Is there any other solution that might be faster?
