Get month from data stored as string in sqlite android -

i'm getting date user , storing sting in database. example date in database looks "22/09/2014". want month(september) date. how can that?

my code is

public arraylist<string> getmonths(){     string select_mon = "select strftime('%m',"             + diary_dbhandler.personal_date + ") " + diary_dbhandler.table_personal + ";";     cursor c = database.rawquery(select_mon, null);     c.movetofirst();     arraylist<string> mon=new arraylist<string>();     if (c != null)     {          while(!c.isafterlast()) {              system.out.println(mon);             mon.add(c.getstring(0));             c.movetonext();           }    c.close();  } return mon; } 

you can date object simpledateformat. pattern string ("22/09/2014") dd/mm/yyyy

date date = new simpledateformat("dd/mm/yyyy", locale.english).parse(string); 

from date can build calendar object

 calendar cal = calendar.getinstance();  cal.settime(date); 

and calendar can extract month,

 cal.get(calendar.month)