Date set and compare

[tshad]

I am trying to set a date in a DateTime variable that I get from a user:

DateTime theDate;
theDate = "08-15-05";

This gives me an error:

Cannot implicitly convert type 'string' to 'System.DateTime'

How do I set it?

I then want to compare it to see if it is equal to another string variable
that is also a date:

if theDate = stringDate...

How do I do this with the DateTime variable?

Thanks

Tom

 

[sonu]

Try this..
theDate =System.DateTime.Parse("08-15-05");

 

[tshad]

Try this..
theDate =System.DateTime.Parse("08-15-05");

That seems to work.

But if I now have a string set to a date, such as

sDate = "09/15/05"
or
s1Date = "15-23-2005"

How would I compare these to "theDate" that we set above?

Thanks,

Tom

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

That seems to work.

But if I now have a string set to a date, such as

sDate = "09/15/05"
or
s1Date = "15-23-2005"

How would I compare these to "theDate" that we set above?

Convert the other string to a DateTime in the same way, and compare the
two DateTimes (eg using ==).

 

[ginguene]

You might have some problems using "15-23-2005" ...
but thats just a thought

 

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

In addition to Jon,

If you compare Dates than it is easy to do it as this

if (myDate.Ticks == theOtherDate.Ticks)

I hope this helps,

Cor

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

In addition to Jon,

If you compare Dates than it is easy to do it as this

if (myDate.Ticks == theOtherDate.Ticks)

I hope this helps,

It's easier than that - it's as easy as:

if (myDate == theOtherDate)

because == is overloaded for DateTimes.

 

[tshad]

Convert the other string to a DateTime in the same way, and compare the
two DateTimes (eg using ==).

That would make sense, as the conversion would check to make sure it is a
valid date as well.

Thanks,

Tom

 

[tshad]

In addition to Jon,

If you compare Dates than it is easy to do it as this

if (myDate.Ticks == theOtherDate.Ticks)

That's true, as well as day, month and year.

Thanks,

Tom

 

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Jon,

It's easier than that - it's as easy as:

if (myDate == theOtherDate)

because == is overloaded for DateTimes.

You are right, I obviously are mixing some things up.


Cor