Question

I get a string from Excel as so: "\"11/01/2011 16:00\""

What’s the most efficient way to trim this in C# so it can be parsed as a DateTime?

Answer 1

You could probably just trim the string, not sure how consistent that format will be though

var trimmedString = excelString.Trim('\\', '"');

That’s assuming the string contains the slashes and those speech marks. If it’s just the speech marks (because visual studio has escaped the string when displaying it) then all you need is

var trimmedString = excelString.Trim('"');