edu.ucdenver.ccp.medline.parser
Class MedlineCitation.PubDate

java.lang.Object
  edu.ucdenver.ccp.medline.parser.MedlineCitation.Date
      edu.ucdenver.ccp.medline.parser.MedlineCitation.PubDate

Enclosing class:

MedlineCitation

public static class MedlineCitation.PubDate
extends MedlineCitation.Date

Author:

Center for Computational Pharmacology, UC Denver; ccpsupport@ucdenver.edu

MedlineCitation.PubDate

public MedlineCitation.PubDate()

getDateStr

public String getDateStr()

Returns:

a string represenation of the publication date. If there is a "medline date" then it is returned. If not, then we check to see if there is a "year". If there is a year, then we return a string formatted to "M/D/Y" depending on the availablity of the month and day. If there is no year, then we check for a "season" returning it if it exists. If none of the previous cases pass then we return null. I don't think this method should ever return null however.