Converting dd mm yyyy formatted string to Datetime

Question

I'm fresh to C# and DotNet. I'd want to convert a text in the format mm/dd/yyyy to a DateTime object. I attempted to use the parse function as shown below, but it failed due to a runtime error.

Any thoughts on how I can convert it to datetime?

DateTime dt=DateTime.Parse("24/01/2013");

Answer 1

Sounds to me like you need DateTime.ParseExact (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.datetime.parseexact?redirectedfrom=MSDN&view=net-6.0#overloads)

It would work something like this

string strDate = "24/01/2013";
DateTime date = DateTime.ParseExact(strDate, "dd/MM/yyyy", null)

Here, null will use the current culture so you can tweak it according to your requirement to ensure the consistent output

DateTime date = DateTime.ParseExact(strDate, "dd/MM/yyyy", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)