How to get the date from given string

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How to get the date from given string in C#

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string dateString = "20091229T213000";

string may enter by users. how to extract the date from the plain string in below mentioned format.

output required is in dd-MMM-yyyy

Thanks in Advance

Posted 11-Jun-14 3:36am

Sri India

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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter · Accepted Answer · 2014-06-11T03:44:00

Solution 1

Use DateTime.ParseExact[^] for that...

C#

DateTime.ParseExact("20091229T213000", "yyyyMMddTHHmmss", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

Posted 11-Jun-14 3:44am

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

Updated 11-Jun-14 3:52am

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dharam1 · Accepted Answer · 2014-06-11T04:10:00

Solution 3

Please try the below code

C#

string dateString = "20091229T213000";
dateString = DateTime.ParseExact(dateString, "yyyyMMddTHHmmss", System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture).ToString("dd-MMM-yyyy");

Posted 11-Jun-14 4:10am

dharam1

Abhinav S · Accepted Answer · 2014-06-11T03:48:00

Solution 2

Use

DateTime.TryParse

Posted 11-Jun-14 3:48am

Abhinav S