How to parse a string to datetime without a time

[Arjen]

Hi,

I have a string with this value 07/11/2008. As you see no time included.

How can I parse this string to a datetime variable? I tried to do this but I
get the exception that the format is incorrect.

Any ideas?

I tried both convert... and datetime.par...

Thanks again!

[Peter Duniho]

On Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:14:52 -0700, Arne Vajhøj <ar**@vajhoej.d kwrote:

Peter Duniho wrote:

>Note that since a forward slash is not a special string formatting
character,

It is a special DateTime formatting character !

Ah, right. Good point.

[qglyirnyfgfo]

Sorry for the stupid question but….

I have never seen this date time formatting character. I searched the
date time formatting strings and was not able to find anything
regarding “\”.

I am kind of lost here, what exactly does having the “\”character
does?

Thanks.


On Jul 3, 3:14*pm, Arne Vajhøj <a...@vajhoej.d kwrote:

Peter Duniho wrote:

Note that since a forward slash is not a special string formatting
character,

It is a special DateTime formatting character !

Arne

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qg**********@ma ilinator.com wrote:

On Jul 3, 3:14 pm, Arne Vajhøj <a...@vajhoej.d kwrote:

>Peter Duniho wrote:

>>Note that since a forward slash is not a special string formatting
character,

It is a special DateTime formatting character !

Sorry for the stupid question but….

I have never seen this date time formatting character. I searched the
date time formatting strings and was not able to find anything
regarding “\”.

I am kind of lost here, what exactly does having the “\”character
does?

We were discussing forward slash not back slash.

But both has a special meaning.

And both are listed at:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8kb3ddd4.aspx

Arne

[Peter Duniho]

On Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:46:39 -0700, <qg**********@m ailinator.comwr ote:

Sorry for the stupid question but….

I have never seen this date time formatting character. I searched the
date time formatting strings and was not able to find anything
regarding “\�.

I am kind of lost here, what exactly does having the “\�characte r
does?

It escapes the forward slash so that the DateTime parser knows to expect
an exact match in the input string, rather than treating the forward slash
as the special character that it is (as Arne pointed out :) ).

Without the escaping, the parser will treat the forward slash as a
placeholder representing whatever the current culture's date separator
character is, which may or may not actually be a forward slash (on English
systems it likely would be, but for other cultures, it could be something
else, like a hyphen or a period, for example).

Pete

[Cor Ligthert[MVP]]

Peter,

(on English

systems it likely would be, but for other cultures, it could be something
else, like a hyphen or a period, for example).

You probably mean (on US systems........ .........?

AFAIK is by instance the UK confirm the most used European behaviour in this
(this excluding countries where the ISO 8601 in Europe is used like by
instance Sweden and Russia)

While the rest of the English speaking world including Canada uses the UK
system.

Although we are in Europe not very consistent in this, sometimes we use a
slash, a hyphen, a dot or just a space.

Cor