Hello, Script error someone help please?

Well, i am very new to java and am taking a computer science course at my school. for our first project we where asked to create a very simple code that took the users birthdate input (month date, year [format]). Then it took that birthdate and broke it up using strings, displaying the users month of birth date of birth and year of birth into a message box.

My problem is that i got everything to work except for when it shows the user Date of birth, for me it always adds the , year next to the date and everything i have tried yas lead me into complier errors or not done the desired results

well here is my code can anyone help me fix the problem?

Quote:

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/* Author: Arsalan Modjbafan
* Due date: 08-25-04
* Lab #: Lab 2A
* File: Birthday.Java
*
* The Lab2A class will bring up an input box that asks for a users birth date
* Then uses that information to show them a message spliting up the Month Day and Year
*/

import javax.swing.*;

public class Birthday {

public static void main( String[] args) {




JFrame lab2A;

lab2A = new JFrame();

lab2A.setSize(700,400);
lab2A.setLocation(324,0);
lab2A.setTitle("Lab 2A");
lab2A.setVisible(true);



String month, day, year, birthday;


birthday = JOptionPane.showInputDialog(lab2A,
"Enter birth date in the format Month Day, Year\nFor example: August 25, 2004");




month = birthday.substring(0, birthday.indexOf(" "));

day = birthday.substring(birthday.indexOf(" ") + 1);

year = birthday.substring(birthday.indexOf(", ") + 1);

JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(lab2A, "Month: " + month + "\nDay: " + day + "\nYear: " + year);


}

}

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The problem is the substring method you're using to get the date. It only has one paramter, the start index. It substrings from that index to the end of the string. Obviously that will always include the year along with the date. Instead you need to use the same substring method you use for the month. It takes a start index and an end index, and cuts out just that part of the string.