How to convert string 2019-03-29T10:45-05:00[America/Chicago] to localdate?

Question

selectedStart = "2019-03-29T10:45-05:00[America/Chicago]";
DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd");
LocalDate parsedDate = LocalDate.parse(selectedStart, formatter);

I get my selectedStart string from a tableview row and try converting it to LocalDate but I get the error :

Text '2019-03-29T10:45-05:00[America/Chicago]' could not be parsed, unparsed text found at index 10

I ONLY want the date in yyyy-MM-dd format do NOT want to get minutes, seconds, timezone etc...

Answer 1

This should be sufficient. Note that I used the full date pattern for the first transformation, which is needed (parse would throw a DateTimeParseException).

final String selectedStart = "2019-03-29T10:45-05:00[America/Chicago]";
final DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mmXXX'['VV']'");
final LocalDate parsedDate = LocalDate.parse(selectedStart, formatter);