Parsing string dates into DateTime

[Mark Rae]

Hi,

Say you are working with a CSV file generated by a legacy mainframe which
stores dates in the format 'ddMMMyy' e.g. ,16JUN05,

Extracting the individual date parts is easy enough, but is there a "neat"
way of converting the string 'JUN' into the integer 6. Obviously it would be
easy enough to write a function for this, but is there a simpler way, say,
with int.Parse or something similar.

Just curious... :-)

Mark

[Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu]

"Mark Rae" <ma**@mark-N-O-S-P-A-M-rae.co.uk> wrote in
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Say you are working with a CSV file generated by a legacy mainframe
which stores dates in the format 'ddMMMyy' e.g. ,16JUN05,

Extracting the individual date parts is easy enough, but is there a
"neat" way of converting the string 'JUN' into the integer 6.
Obviously it would be easy enough to write a function for this, but is
there a simpler way, say, with int.Parse or something similar.

Just curious... :-)

DateTime.Parse
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[Mark Rae]

"Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu" <cp**@hower.org> wrote in message
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DateTime.Parse

Thanks.