asked on I need help with a pattern for DateTime.TryParseExact in C#
I am trying to use DateTime.TryParseExact in C# to catch the following patterns:
Wed Sep 27 06:29:44 CDT 2017
Wed Oct 4 06:27:44 CDT 2017
Sat Oct 14 06:33:15 CDT 2017
Wed Oct 18 06:34:06 CDT 2017
Wed Nov 8 06:30:46 CST 2017
Sun Nov 19 19:44:15 CST 2017
How would you write the pattern for the times above? Please note, I don't care about retaining the timezone information.
Thank you for looking at my posting.
Wed Sep 27 06:29:44 CDT 2017
Wed Oct 4 06:27:44 CDT 2017
Sat Oct 14 06:33:15 CDT 2017
Wed Oct 18 06:34:06 CDT 2017
Wed Nov 8 06:30:46 CST 2017
Sun Nov 19 19:44:15 CST 2017
How would you write the pattern for the times above? Please note, I don't care about retaining the timezone information.
Thank you for looking at my posting.
C#
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Kelvin McDaniel
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Thank you for your help.
Just in case someone needs to know how to do this with DateTime.TryParseExact, the key is to use a few formatted strings and the overload that lets you try more than one simultaneously:
string[] formats=
{
"ddd MMM d HH:mm:ss CDT yyyy",
"ddd MMM d HH:mm:ss CST yyyy"
};
var dateString = "Wed Oct 4 06:27:44 CDT 2017";
if (DateTime.TryParseExact(dateString, formats, new CultureInfo("en-US"), DateTimeStyles.None, out var dateValue))
{
// do something with dateValue
}