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MMDeveloper on 03/31/09


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C# IsDate function

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Just a small simple method I wrote in C# that's similar to Visual Basic's IsDate() function.. Inputs string date, returns boolean true/false if string is a valid date or not.

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  1. public bool IsDate(string sdate) {
  2. 	DateTime dt;
  3. 	bool isDate = true;
  4.  
  5. 	try {
  6. 		dt = DateTime.Parse(sdate);
  7. 	}
  8. 	catch {
  9. 		isDate = false;
  10. 	}
  11.  
  12. 	return isDate;
  13. }

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Posted By: GothikX on April 23, 2009

A more efficient alternative would be DateTime.TryParse (eliminates the need and overhead of try/catch).

Posted By: MMDeveloper on April 23, 2009

thanks! I'm not that great of a C# coder (very very green to this language). I didn't know that method existed.

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