Convert from a string to datetime

Question

First of all I have a xamdatetimeeditor which is for user to select the date and time. It is in the format of "yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss". From there, I would like to convert it to "yyyyMMddHHmmss" format. Which means just removing the special characters and spaces.

Do I have to use the DateTime.TryParseExact method? Or do I have to use the string replace function? What is the best solution?

FOUND THE SOLUTION!! just have to use string format = "yyyyMMddHHmmss"; and date = getdate.ToString(format);

Answer 1

Try this:

var input = "2004/01/02 12:01:03";
DateTime aDate;
DateTime.TryParse(input, out aDate);
string output = aDate.ToString("yyyyMMddHHmmss");