Question

I have a string 12012009 input by the user in ASP.NET MVC application. I wanted to convert this to a DateTime.

But if I do DateTime.TryParse("12012009", out outDateTime); it returns a false.

So I tried to convert 12012009 to 12/01/2009 and then do
DateTime.TryParse("12/01/2009", out outDateTime); which will work

But I don’t find any straight forward method to convert string 12012009 to string “12/01/2009”. Any ideas?

Answer 1

You can use the DateTime.TryParseExact and pass in the exact format string:

DateTime dateValue = DateTime.Now;
if (DateTime.TryParseExact("12012009", "ddMMyyyy", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, DateTimeStyles.None, out dateValue)))
{
   // Date now in dateValue
}