Does anyone know how to prevent an error when using DateTime.Parse?
I am using it to format the display of dates in my database. However, some
dates are empty and so I get an error when I try to run my webpage.
Help please!!
paul Beckett
4  1860 
You can't prevent an error. Obviously if you try to turn "acbxyz" into a
date you will get an error.
You need to catch it in a try...catch block.
A better way might be to test prior to calling Parse to see if your value is
an empty string, then just don't call Parse.
"Paul Beckett" <pa**********@l ineone.net> wrote in message
news:c1******** **@hercules.bti nternet.com... Does anyone know how to prevent an error when using DateTime.Parse?
I am using it to format the display of dates in my database. However, some
dates are empty and so I get an error when I try to run my webpage.
Help please!!
paul Beckett
All I really want to do is prevent the date appearing as, say, 20/02/2004
00:00:00
There must (surely) be an easy way to do this??
Paul
"Peter Rilling" <pe***@nospam.r illing.net> wrote in message
news:OA******** ********@TK2MSF TNGP12.phx.gbl. .. You can't prevent an error. Obviously if you try to turn "acbxyz" into a
date you will get an error.
You need to catch it in a try...catch block.
A better way might be to test prior to calling Parse to see if your value
is an empty string, then just don't call Parse.
"Paul Beckett" <pa**********@l ineone.net> wrote in message
news:c1******** **@hercules.bti nternet.com... Does anyone know how to prevent an error when using DateTime.Parse?
I am using it to format the display of dates in my database. However,
some dates are empty and so I get an error when I try to run my webpage.
Help please!!
paul Beckett
I've sorted it out - you use
<%# DataBinder.Eval (Container.Data Item, "Date", "{0:dd MMM yyyy}") %>
Thanks
"Paul Beckett" <pa**********@l ineone.net> wrote in message
news:c1******** **@hercules.bti nternet.com... All I really want to do is prevent the date appearing as, say, 20/02/2004
00:00:00
There must (surely) be an easy way to do this??
Paul
"Peter Rilling" <pe***@nospam.r illing.net> wrote in message
news:OA******** ********@TK2MSF TNGP12.phx.gbl. .. You can't prevent an error. Obviously if you try to turn "acbxyz" into
a date you will get an error.
You need to catch it in a try...catch block.
A better way might be to test prior to calling Parse to see if your
value is an empty string, then just don't call Parse.
"Paul Beckett" <pa**********@l ineone.net> wrote in message
news:c1******** **@hercules.bti nternet.com... Does anyone know how to prevent an error when using DateTime.Parse?
I am using it to format the display of dates in my database. However,
some dates are empty and so I get an error when I try to run my webpage.
Help please!!
paul Beckett
I see, you didn't so much want to prevent error but rather wanted to create
a date from a non-standard format.
"Paul Beckett" <pa**********@l ineone.net> wrote in message
news:c1******** **@hercules.bti nternet.com... I've sorted it out - you use
<%# DataBinder.Eval (Container.Data Item, "Date", "{0:dd MMM yyyy}") %>
Thanks
"Paul Beckett" <pa**********@l ineone.net> wrote in message
news:c1******** **@hercules.bti nternet.com... All I really want to do is prevent the date appearing as, say,
20/02/2004 00:00:00
There must (surely) be an easy way to do this??
Paul
"Peter Rilling" <pe***@nospam.r illing.net> wrote in message
news:OA******** ********@TK2MSF TNGP12.phx.gbl. .. You can't prevent an error. Obviously if you try to turn "acbxyz"
into a date you will get an error.
You need to catch it in a try...catch block.
A better way might be to test prior to calling Parse to see if your
value is an empty string, then just don't call Parse.
"Paul Beckett" <pa**********@l ineone.net> wrote in message
news:c1******** **@hercules.bti nternet.com...
> Does anyone know how to prevent an error when using DateTime.Parse?
>
> I am using it to format the display of dates in my database.
However, some > dates are empty and so I get an error when I try to run my webpage.
>
> Help please!!
>
> paul Beckett
>
>
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