String Conversion for DateTime

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Hi Friends,
I have string value is "Week 9 (or) Current week: 2/24/2013 - 3/2/2013"

But I want startdate as "2/24/2013" and EndDate as "3/2/2013" into DATETIME.

How can i convert it. Please help me.

Posted 28-Feb-13 3:41am

FspFriends

Updated 28-Feb-13 5:54am

Thomas Daniels

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[no name] 28-Feb-13 9:44am

Have you tried the DateTime.Parse or TryParse methods?

3 solutions

Solution 1

You can use Convert.ToDateTime() or the other methods mentioned by ThePhantomUpvoter.

Posted 28-Feb-13 4:15am

Richard C Bishop

Solution 2

Use

C#

DateTime.Parse("2/24/2013");

Posted 28-Feb-13 4:33am

CrystalB

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Pallavi Waikar · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-28T05:52:00

try this exampal code using regex..

string input = "Week 9 (or) Current week: 2/24/2013 - 3/2/2013";
MatchCollection matches = Regex.Matches(input, @"\d{1,2}/\d{1,2}/\d{4}");
DateTime dt =DateTime.Parse(matches[0].Value);
DateTime dt2 = DateTime.Parse(matches[1].Value);

also go through following link
Regular expression - String followed by a date[^]