In this post, we will see how we can accept any date format and return with a common date format with the TryParseExact() method. Converting date to the wanted date format is a time spending and slow process in several languages including C#.
In the below code, I created one method namely ChangeDateFormat which accepts string date in any format and will return with fix format i.e. “MM/dd/yyyy” format.
public string ChangeDateFormat(string inputDate)
{
string[] formats = { "dd/MM/yyyy", "dd/M/yyyy", "d/M/yyyy", "d/MM/yyyy",
"dd/MM/yy", "dd/M/yy", "d/M/yy", "d/MM/yy", "MM/dd/yyyy","yyyy/MM/dd","dd/MM/yyyy","MM-dd-yyyy","yyyyMMdd"};
DateTime.TryParseExact(inputDate, formats,
System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture,
System.Globalization.DateTimeStyles.None, out DateTime outputDate);
return outputDate.ToString("MM/dd/yyyy");
}
In the above method need to pass all possible format in string[] which we wanna accept. we have done now you can use this method anywhere in your project.
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