Question

How do I assign each value between a colon into a new variable? So 08:10:20 Would be hours,minutes and Seconds In VB.NET?

So

• Hours would be equal to 8
• Minutes would be equal to 10
• Seconds would be equal to 20

Answer 1

The general way to parse a delimited string like that would be do do something like this:

Dim parts() As String = value.Split(":"c)
Dim hours As Integer = Integer.Parse(parts(0))
Dim minutes As Integer = Integer.Parse(parts(1))
Dim seconds As Integer = Integer.Parse(parts(2))

However, if what you really want is a Date object, then you could just do this:

Dim d As Date = Date.ParseExact(value, "HH:mm:ss", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)

The “HH” means 24-hour time. If you want 12-hour time, use lower-case (“hh”).