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AB Vyas
AB Vyas

Reputation: 2389

How to convert date to word format?

I have one date like 12/05/2012 now i would like to change that format in to simple string.

for ex. 

string newdate = new string();
newdate = "12/05/2012";
DateTime Bdate = DateTime.ParseExact(Newdate, "dd/MM/yyyy", System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

now my BDate is DateTime ie. BDate= 2012/05/12

now i want to do something like

if my Bdate is 12/05/2012 so i want a string which is similar like "Twelve May two thousand twelve"

How can i do this?

Please help me...

Thanks in advance....

Upvotes: 6

Views: 12753

Answers (4)

Ran Ray Alcantara
Ran Ray Alcantara

Reputation: 1

string MyDate = "12/05/2012";
DateTime expected = Convert.ToDateTime(MyDate);
string MyNewDate = expected.ToString("dd MMM yyyy");

Check other date format on this site https://www.mikesdotnetting.com/article/23/date-formatting-in-c .

Upvotes: 0

James Johnson
James Johnson

Reputation: 46047

You'll need to look at each date part and use a function to get the written equivalent. I've included a class below that converts integers to written text, and extended it to support DateTime conversion as well:

public static class WrittenNumerics
{
    static readonly string[] ones = new string[] { "", "One", "Two", "Three", "Four", "Five", "Six", "Seven", "Eight", "Nine" };
    static readonly string[] teens = new string[] { "Ten", "Eleven", "Twelve", "Thirteen", "Fourteen", "Fifteen", "Sixteen", "Seventeen", "Eighteen", "Nineteen" };
    static readonly string[] tens = new string[] { "Twenty", "Thirty", "Forty", "Fifty", "Sixty", "Seventy", "Eighty", "Ninety" };
    static readonly string[] thousandsGroups = { "", " Thousand", " Million", " Billion" };

    private static string FriendlyInteger(int n, string leftDigits, int thousands)
    {
        if (n == 0)
            return leftDigits;

        string friendlyInt = leftDigits;
        if (friendlyInt.Length > 0)
            friendlyInt += " ";

        if (n < 10)
            friendlyInt += ones[n];
        else if (n < 20)
            friendlyInt += teens[n - 10];
        else if (n < 100)
            friendlyInt += FriendlyInteger(n % 10, tens[n / 10 - 2], 0);
        else if (n < 1000)
            friendlyInt += FriendlyInteger(n % 100, (ones[n / 100] + " Hundred"), 0);
        else
            friendlyInt += FriendlyInteger(n % 1000, FriendlyInteger(n / 1000, "", thousands + 1), 0);

        return friendlyInt + thousandsGroups[thousands];
    }

    public static string DateToWritten(DateTime date)
    {
        return string.Format("{0} {1} {2}", IntegerToWritten(date.Day), date.ToString("MMMM"), IntegerToWritten(date.Year));
    }

    public static string IntegerToWritten(int n)
    {
        if (n == 0)
            return "Zero";
        else if (n < 0)
            return "Negative " + IntegerToWritten(-n);

        return FriendlyInteger(n, "", 0);
    }
}

Disclaimer: Basic functionality courtesy of @Wedge

Using this class, just call the DateToWritten method:

var output = WrittenNumerics.DateToWritten(DateTime.Today);

The output of the above is: Twelve May Two Thousand Twelve

Upvotes: 11

jaselg
jaselg

Reputation: 377

Suppose 12/05/2012 is a string, then you have to tokenize it into elements which separated by slash "/". E.g:

"12/05/2012" -> ["12", "05", "2012"]

Next, you define yourself a rule which parses these elements to what you expect. Say, "12" is "twelve", "05" is "five" or "May", etc.

Upvotes: 1

Douglas
Douglas

Reputation: 54877

This isn’t what you want, but the closest I can suggest using built-in functionality is ToLongDateString, which gives you the name of the month and is obviously culture-sensitive.

string str = bdate.ToLongDateString();
// Assuming en-US culture, this would give: "Saturday, May 12, 2012"

Upvotes: 2

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