Question

I want to use the DateTime.TryParse method to get the datetime value of a string into a Nullable. But when I try this:

DateTime? d; bool success = DateTime.TryParse('some date text', out (DateTime)d); 

the compiler tells me

‘out’ argument is not classified as a variable

Not sure what I need to do here. I’ve also tried:

out (DateTime)d.Value  

and that doesn’t work either. Any ideas?

Answer 1

DateTime? d=null; DateTime d2; bool success = DateTime.TryParse('some date text', out d2); if (success) d=d2; 

(There might be more elegant solutions, but why don’t you simply do something as above?)