Re: Type Conversion with Date formatted as YYYYMMDD

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On Mar 14, 3:58 pm, "Branco Medeiros" <branco.medei...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Mike wrote:
I have a string variable containing a date formatted as YYYYMMDD
For example - Dim x as string = "20070314"

If I try to perform a type conversion as follows I get an error:
Dim y as Date = CDATE(x)

<snip>

I guess you'll be glad to know that the Date class has a Shared method
to do just that:

Dim D As Date = Date.ParseExact(X, "yyyyMMdd", Nothing)

HTH.

Regards,

Branco.

It never ceases to amaze me the kinds of stuff that I overlook in the
Framework. I use the DateTime class all the time. I don't know how
many times I've manually coded that solution, and didn't need to. I
should have figured there'd be a Framework method for handling it. I
just didn't look in the right place for it.

Thanks for pointing that out, Bronco.


.

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