DateTime->Parse

[VonHagNDaz]

Hey Guys, I'm having a little problem parsing a date and time from a string.

		DateTime^ start = gcnew DateTime();

		temp = "";
		this->thisJob->getStartDate(temp);
		start->Parse(temp);

temp is "5/16/2011" however, after start->parse(temp) the value of start is always "1/1/1 0:0:0" I'm only interested in the date "5/26/2011". MSDN has several differnt "Parse" methods, and I've tried a few others, but the result is always "1/1/1 0:0:0" Sorry for the smileys, I think CP website is taking my returned string I'm typing into the question and converting it into some kind of smiley code.

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[Mark Salsbery]

Try something like this...

String ^temp = "5/26/2011";
DateTime start;
if (DateTime::TryParse(temp, start))
{
    // do something with start
}

...or this...

String ^temp = "5/26/2011";
try
{
    DateTime start = DateTime::Parse(temp);

    // do something with start
}
catch (Exception ^)
{
}

Mark Salsbery Microsoft MVP - Visual C++ :java:

modified on Monday, May 16, 2011 2:32 PM

[VonHagNDaz]

That works! I'm a bit confused as to why your code works and mine doesn't. What is the difference between SomeDateTimeObject.Parse, and DateTime::Parse?

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[Mark Salsbery]

All the Parse() methods are static (AFAIK) so they return a new DateTime object instead of altering the one you were calling Parse() on. This would have worked;

start = start->Parse(temp);

Mark Salsbery Microsoft MVP - Visual C++ :java:

[VonHagNDaz]

I see, MSDN wasn't too clear on that. It lead me to believe temp would be modified. Thank you, 5's for both.

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