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Don Bar
Don Bar

Reputation: 211

TryParseExact doesn't work on string with date and time while format include only date format

Any idea why when i have time "00:00:00" in my string this does't work ?

DateTime.TryParseExact("01/06/2015 00:00:00", "dd/MM/yyyy", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, DateTimeStyles.None, out tempDate)

While when i'm doing this it works Ok:

DateTime.TryParseExact("01/06/2015", "dd/MM/yyyy", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, DateTimeStyles.None, out tempDate)

Any help will be much appreciated! Thanks

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1599

Answers (2)

Francis
Francis

Reputation: 1904

Unfortunately, I tried the answer and it didn't work.

It turns out that there was a space character at the beginning of the date string I was trying to ParseExact. (e.g. " 20/08/2019")

So try a close examination of your date string and make sure there's no hidden characters or space characters you didn't spot

Upvotes: 0

Soner Gönül
Soner Gönül

Reputation: 98810

From documentation;

Converts the specified string representation of a date and time to its DateTime equivalent using the specified format, culture-specific format information, and style. The format of the string representation must match the specified format exactly.

For your second example they match, but in first example, they don't.

Use dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss format instead.

string s = "01/06/2015 00:00:00";
DateTime dt;
if(DateTime.TryParseExact(s, "dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture,
                          DateTimeStyles.None, out dt))
{
    // Successfully parsing
}

More information at;

Upvotes: 5

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