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ISHIDA
ISHIDA

Reputation: 4868

Converting date to worded date in c#

I have a date in this format "MM/dd/yyyy". 

string date = "03/30/2017"

I want to convert this string to this format- Thursday, March 30, 2017.

How can I do this ?

Thank you

Upvotes: 0

Views: 96

Answers (2)

Sergey Berezovskiy
Sergey Berezovskiy

Reputation: 236188

You can parse string to DateTime object and then use DateTime.ToLongDateString() to get string in required format:

var str = "03/30/2017";
var date = DateTime.ParseExact(str, "MM/dd/yyyy", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
var formatted = date.ToLongDateString();

Note that formatted string is culture sensitive. For en-US culture formatted string will be exactly in format which you want:

"Thursday, March 30, 2017"

You can also specify exact format manually, just as with parsing part:

var formatted = date.ToString("dddd, MMMM d, yyyy");

Check Custom Date and Time Format Strings for reference.

Upvotes: 5

Youri Leenman
Youri Leenman

Reputation: 248

You should parse it by using 

string date = "03/30/2017";
DateTime datetime = DateTime.Parse(date);
string nameddate = datetime.ToString("dddd,MMMMM dd, yyyy");

Other format options are found at https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8kb3ddd4(v=vs.110).aspx

Upvotes: 1

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