Parse string to DateTime using several formats to try in CSharp

Description

The following code shows how to parse string to DateTime using several formats to try.

Example


using System;/*www .j  a  va2 s.c om*/
using System.Globalization;

public class Example
{
   public static void Main()
   {
      string[] formats= {"M/d/yyyy h:mm:ss tt", "M/d/yyyy h:mm tt", 
                         "MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss", "M/d/yyyy h:mm:ss", 
                         "M/d/yyyy hh:mm tt", "M/d/yyyy hh tt", 
                         "M/d/yyyy h:mm", "M/d/yyyy h:mm", 
                         "MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm", "M/dd/yyyy hh:mm"};
      string[] dateStrings = {"5/1/2014 6:32 PM", "05/01/2014 6:32:05 PM", 
                              "5/1/2014 6:32:00", "05/01/2014 06:32", 
                              "05/01/2014 06:32:00 PM", "05/01/2014 06:32:00"}; 
      DateTime dateValue;

      foreach (string dateString in dateStrings)
      {
         try {
            dateValue = DateTime.ParseExact(dateString, formats, 
                                            new CultureInfo("en-US"), 
                                            DateTimeStyles.None);
            Console.WriteLine("Converted '{0}' to {1}.", dateString, dateValue);
         }
         catch (FormatException) {
            Console.WriteLine("Unable to convert '{0}' to a date.", dateString);
         }                                               
      }
   }
}

The code above generates the following result.





















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