Question

I am using the following function to determine whether input string is valid date or not.

public static bool IsDate(string date)
        {
            DateTime Temp;

            if (DateTime.TryParse(date, out Temp))
                return true;
            else
                return false;
        }

Problem is when I give input “1997-09” then it returns true. I want it to check complete date like “1997-08-12”

And no there is no fix date format. Input could also be “19-Feb-2012”

Answer 1

one easy condition you can add:

    public static bool IsDate(string date)
    {
        DateTime Temp;
        return(DateTime.TryParse(date, out Temp)&&date.Length>=10)
    }