Question

I want to split the Birthdate column in my database..

Returned String from database : dd/mm/yyyy

I want to get each value on a seperate strings,

date = dd
month = mm
year = yyyy

I’ve tried something like this.. but this dont always work because some date were only one character? ex. 4/5/2012

Birthdate.ToString.Substring(0, 2)

Answer 1

Alternatively could you not convert the string coming back from the DB to a date? You could subsequently access each component part by using Date.Month, etc.

Dim mydate As Date = Convert.ToDateTime("21/05/2012")

Console.WriteLine(mydate.Day)
Console.WriteLine(mydate.Month)

Console.WriteLine(mydate.Year)