Creating new object determining its type from a String

[viiids]

I have the type of a variable stored in a String, for example :
String s = "java.util.Date";
Now i need to create an object whose type is denoted by s. Is there a way to get this done ?
I tried using split on s to get the last String after '.' to check it with all primitive types and some basic advance types and then accordingly create an object however it seems that split will not work with '.'. I tried to use "\." but my code fails to compile. Please add your suggestions.

[eRaaaa]

		String s = "java.util.Date"; 
		Object o = Class.forName(s).newInstance();
		if(o instanceof java.util.Date){
			java.util.Date d = (java.util.Date)o;
			System.out.println(d);
		}

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are you sure, that you need somehting like that? sounds like a design fault :)

[DarrylBurke]

it seems that split will not work with '.'. I tried to use "\." but my code fails to compile.

The backslash is an escape character both for regexes and for String literals. To end up with a regex that contains a quoted dot -- \. -- you need to escape the backslash in the String literal -- \\ -- so that has to be coded as \\.[code]String string = ...;
String[] strings = string.split("\\,");]/code]

to check it with all primitive types and some basic advance types and then accordingly create an object

I agree with eRaaaa that this is almost certainly a faulty design. Would you like to explain your requirement (note: the requirement, not your thoughts on how to meet those requirements).

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