Jon Skeet [C# MVP] wrote:
Quote:
pipo <nomail@me.comwrote:
Quote:
>1)
>DateTime test;
>try
>{
>test = DateTime.ParseExact("080230", "yyMMdd",
>CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
>}
>catch (System.FormatException form)
>{
>//Not a valid date.
>}
>2)
>The same but then the other format.
>
Why raise an exception when TryParseExact does exactly what you need to
do, but without throwing?
I would say it depends on what you're doing.
If you expect your input to be a date, throwing an exception seems to be
perfectly reasonable - it clearly says, "Something went wrong. I'm now
doing error handling".
Alun Harford
