Day name of date object not working

[.Net Sports]

In my csharp code behind file, I'm trying to perform a redirect if the
date a user queries is a Wednesday:

string rqs = Request.QueryString["txtboarddate"];
string rqsday;
rqsday = (System.String.Format("{0:dddd}",rqs)) ;
if(rqsday == "Wednesday")
{
Response.Redirect("http://www.anothersite.com");
}

...but when the date (take today which is a Wednesday) is queried from
the prior page (everything on that page is formatted correctly because
it works when pointing to other functions of the script), I do not get
the redirect. When I comment out the "if" coding, the redirect does
work.

????
..Net Sports

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

..Net Sports <ba********@cox.net> wrote:

In my csharp code behind file, I'm trying to perform a redirect if the
date a user queries is a Wednesday:

string rqs = Request.QueryString["txtboarddate"];
string rqsday;
rqsday = (System.String.Format("{0:dddd}",rqs)) ;
if(rqsday == "Wednesday")
{
Response.Redirect("http://www.anothersite.com");
}

..but when the date (take today which is a Wednesday) is queried from
the prior page (everything on that page is formatted correctly because
it works when pointing to other functions of the script), I do not get
the redirect. When I comment out the "if" coding, the redirect does
work.

Well, the first thing to do is log what the value of rqsday is...]

Bear in mind that Wednesday isn't called Wednesday in all cultures, and
IIRC the above will format the date in the detected culture of the
browser.

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[Fabien Bezagu]

Your approach seems not to be the best : you shouldn't compare strings
when you can. You have the DateTime.DayOfWeek property which can be
helpful. Just parse your txtboarddate variable with DateTime.Parse and
voila ;-)

On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 23:06:53 +0200, .Net Sports <ba********@cox.net> wrote:

In my csharp code behind file, I'm trying to perform a redirect if the
date a user queries is a Wednesday:

string rqs = Request.QueryString["txtboarddate"];
string rqsday;
rqsday = (System.String.Format("{0:dddd}",rqs)) ;
if(rqsday == "Wednesday")
{
Response.Redirect("http://www.anothersite.com");
}

..but when the date (take today which is a Wednesday) is queried from
the prior page (everything on that page is formatted correctly because
it works when pointing to other functions of the script), I do not get
the redirect. When I comment out the "if" coding, the redirect does
work.

????
.Net Sports

[.Net Sports]

I'm not sure I understand. Request.QueryString["txtboardd*ate"] comes
from the previous page as "7/13/2005" (if querying a Wednesday date). I
want to make 'rqsday' the day name of 'rqs' (which is
Request.QueryString["txtboardd*ate"] )

[James Curran]

Well, first of all, somewhere in your code, you are going to have to use
a DateTime object. All you are using now are strings.
rqsday = (System.String.Format("{0:dddd}",rqs)) ;
will accomplish exactly the same thing as
rqsday = rqs;

You probably want:
DateTime rqs = DateTime.Parse(Request.QueryString["txtboarddate"]);
(note, that could throw an exception)

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In my csharp code behind file, I'm trying to perform a redirect if the
date a user queries is a Wednesday:

string rqs = Request.QueryString["txtboarddate"];
string rqsday;
rqsday = (System.String.Format("{0:dddd}",rqs)) ;
if(rqsday == "Wednesday")
{
Response.Redirect("http://www.anothersite.com");
}

..but when the date (take today which is a Wednesday) is queried from
the prior page (everything on that page is formatted correctly because
it works when pointing to other functions of the script), I do not get
the redirect. When I comment out the "if" coding, the redirect does
work.

????
.Net Sports