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James
James

Reputation: 139

Converting DayOfWeek enum to a string repesenting the day

I was wondering if there was a way to directly convert the integer DayOfWeek returns into a string representing the day like Monday, Tuesday etc.

Sample code:

MessageBox.Show(Date.Today.DayOfWeek)

This will return 6 (as of today). Is there a way to directly convert this into Saturday, for example? I don't really care what it really converts it into, but I want to do away with my Select Case:

Select Case Date.Today.DayOfWeek
     Case 0
         day = "Sunday"
     Case 1
         day = "Monday"
     Case 2
         day = "Tuesday"
     Case 3
         day = "Wednesday"
     Case 4
         day = "Thursday"
     Case 5
         day = "Friday"
     Case 6
         day = "Saturday"
     Case Else
         day = "Apocalypse: we're all boned."
 End Select

Thanks :)

Upvotes: 10

Views: 30291

Answers (6)

Greg Gage
Greg Gage

Reputation: 1

Just in case others looked at this example. I believe it should be Case 0 for Sunday.

Case 0 
    day = "Sunday"

Upvotes: -3

CoderDennis
CoderDennis

Reputation: 13837

Date.Today.DayOfWeek.ToString will give you what you're looking for. Nice and easy.

Upvotes: 0

itowlson
itowlson

Reputation: 74802

DateTimeFormatInfo.CurrentInfo.GetDayName.

Upvotes: 13

Rubens Farias
Rubens Farias

Reputation: 57936

A simpler way:

Dim day As String = Date.Today.DayOfWeek.ToString()

Upvotes: 5

Yvo
Yvo

Reputation: 19263

There's a DateTime format for that: dddd 

Dim date1 As Date = #08/29/2008 7:27:15PM#
date1.ToString("dddd", CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("en-US"))

With the CultureInfo you can get it in a specific language (it's optional)

For more info: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8kb3ddd4.aspx#ddddSpecifier

Upvotes: 2

Jon Skeet
Jon Skeet

Reputation: 1500065

DateTime.DayOfWeek doesn't return an integer - it returns an enum of type DayOfWeek. I'd expect that to be converted into the name automatically, but maybe this is a VB subtlety; maybe something to do with using Date instead of DateTime? Try this:

MessageBox.Show(DateTime.Today.DayOfWeek.ToString())

This won't be culture-sensitive though - it will always just display the name of enum value, in English. If that's not good for you, use Zyphrax or itowlson's solution.

Upvotes: 0

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