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Roman Ratskey
Roman Ratskey

Reputation: 5259

TimeSpan.Parse Parsing Issue

I am trying to parse time using TimeSpan.Parse method; However i get an unexpected result as i am trying to parse this 00:00:45.748 which supposed to be

0 Hours 0 Minutes 45 Seconds 748 Milliseconds

TimeSpan.Parse("00:00:45.748")

Result :

00:00:45.7480000

I want to know why it reads the milliseconds as 7480000 instead of 748 ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 733

Answers (3)

geedubb
geedubb

Reputation: 4057

00:00:45.7480000 == 00:00:45.748

The difference is simply the number of decimal places on the milliseconds

This will format your output as desired:

var ts = TimeSpan.Parse("00:00:45.748");
Console.WriteLine(string.Format("{0:dd\\:hh\\:mm\\:ss\\.fff}", ts));

The fff is the number of decimal places you want to display (this can be from 1 to 7). See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee372287.aspx

Note that this will require .NET 4.0 or above

Upvotes: 1

Soner Gönül
Soner Gönül

Reputation: 98750

As additional to Oded's answer;

From TimeSpan.Parse Method (String)

ff - Optional fractional seconds, consisting of one to seven decimal digits.

You can use The "FFF" Custom Format Specifier

Like;

TimeSpan ts = TimeSpan.Parse("00:00:45.748");
Console.WriteLine(ts.ToString(@"hh\:mm\:ss\.FFF"), CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

Output will be;

00:00:45.748

For more informations, take a look at Standard TimeSpan Format Strings and Custom TimeSpan Format Strings

Upvotes: 1

Oded
Oded

Reputation: 499002

The result you are showing is that of displaying a TimeSpan in a textual format.

By default it will show the full range.

The string you have shown actually shows that the parse was successful and you got the right result.

If you want to format the TimeSpan, use ToString with an appropriate TimeSpan format string (.NET 4.0 and above).

There are custom and standard format strings for TimeSpan.

In your case, it looks like you are looking for:

myTimeSpan.ToString("hh:mm:ss.FFF")

Upvotes: 3

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