datetime parse and making it work with a specific format

Question

I have a datetime coming back from an XML file in the format:

20080916 11:02

as in

yyyymm hh:ss

How can i get the datetime.parse function to pick up on this? Ie parse it without erroring? Cheers

User · Answer

Thanks for the tip  i used this to get my date  20071122  parsed  I needed to add datetimestyles  I used none and it worked   DateTime dt   DateTime MinValue   DateTime TryParseExact  20071122    yyyyMMdd   null System Globalization DateTimeStyles None  out dt

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DateTime ParseExact input  yyyyMMdd HH mm  null     assuming you meant to say that minutes followed the hours  not seconds - your example is a little confusing    The ParseExact documentation details other overloads  in case you want to have the parse automatically convert to Universal Time or something like that   As  Joel Coehoorn mentions  there s also the option of using TryParseExact  which will return a Boolean value indicating success or failure of the operation - I m still on  Net 1 1  so I often forget this one   If you need to parse other formats  you can check out the Standard DateTime Format Strings

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DateTime ParseExact input  yyyyMMdd HH mm  null     assuming you meant to say that minutes followed the hours  not seconds - your example is a little confusing    The ParseExact documentation details other overloads  in case you want to have the parse automatically convert to Universal Time or something like that   As  Joel Coehoorn mentions  there s also the option of using TryParseExact  which will return a Boolean value indicating success or failure of the operation - I m still on  Net 1 1  so I often forget this one   If you need to parse other formats  you can check out the Standard DateTime Format Strings

User · Answer

Thanks for the tip  i used this to get my date  20071122  parsed  I needed to add datetimestyles  I used none and it worked   DateTime dt   DateTime MinValue   DateTime TryParseExact  20071122    yyyyMMdd   null System Globalization DateTimeStyles None  out dt

User · Answer

DateTime ParseExact input  yyyyMMdd HH mm  null     assuming you meant to say that minutes followed the hours  not seconds - your example is a little confusing    The ParseExact documentation details other overloads  in case you want to have the parse automatically convert to Universal Time or something like that   As  Joel Coehoorn mentions  there s also the option of using TryParseExact  which will return a Boolean value indicating success or failure of the operation - I m still on  Net 1 1  so I often forget this one   If you need to parse other formats  you can check out the Standard DateTime Format Strings

User · Answer

DateTime ParseExact input  yyyyMMdd HH mm  null     assuming you meant to say that minutes followed the hours  not seconds - your example is a little confusing    The ParseExact documentation details other overloads  in case you want to have the parse automatically convert to Universal Time or something like that   As  Joel Coehoorn mentions  there s also the option of using TryParseExact  which will return a Boolean value indicating success or failure of the operation - I m still on  Net 1 1  so I often forget this one   If you need to parse other formats  you can check out the Standard DateTime Format Strings

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