无法识别DateTime.parse字符串

Question

I can't understand why my string value keeps throwing an exception for what should be a valid string. I have a string date in the format "30/09/2016 14:55:00" (called myDate ) and have tried the following to get it into a datetime format:

DateTime.ParseExact(myDate, "dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss", null);
DateTime.ParseExact(myDate, "dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss", CultureInfo.CurrentCulture);
DateTime.Parse(myDate);

I can't see where I've gone wrong, is there something I've missed?

EDIT:

Current value of myDate

Keeps context when parse is called

The exception

The same is also true for all other versions of parsing a string to DateTime

Answer 1

It looks like you have extra unwanted double quotes in your string.

Try this and see if it works:

var date = DateTime.ParseExact(myDate.Trim('\"'), "dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss", CultureInfo.CurrentCulture);

Answer 2

You string contains additional quotes which you should remove before calling DateTime.Parse . You can remove the quotes by calling

myDate = myDate.Trim('"');
DateTime.ParseExact(myDate, "dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss", null);

Answer 3

The problem is that your string has extra " and then when you parse it throws an exception. Your string of "30/09/2016 14:55:00" is actually \\""30/09/2016 14:55:00\\""

Remove the \\" and then parse:

string myDate = "\"30/09/2016 14:55:00\"";
var result = DateTime.ParseExact(myDate.Replace("\"",""), "dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

Or because it is always at the ends of the string you can use the .Trim method