title: java SimpleDateFormat
body: <p>in Java, how to parse a date string that contains a letter that does not represent a pattern?</p>
  
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  "2007-11-02T14:46:03+01:00"
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  <pre>
  String date ="2007-11-02T14:46:03+01:00";
  String format = "yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssz";
  new SimpleDateFormat(format).parse(date);
  
  Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Illegal pattern character 'T'
      at java.text.SimpleDateFormat.compile(SimpleDateFormat.java:769)
      at java.text.SimpleDateFormat.initialize(SimpleDateFormat.java:576)
      at java.text.SimpleDateFormat.(SimpleDateFormat.java:501)
      at java.text.SimpleDateFormat.(SimpleDateFormat.java:476)
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