I have a string variable that stores a date like "05/11/2010".
How can I parse the string to get only the year?
So I will have another year variable like year = 2010.
5 Answers
You can use the DateTime.Parse Method to parse the string to a DateTime value which has a Year Property:
var result = DateTime.Parse("05/11/2010").Year; // result == 2010 Depending on the culture settings of the operating system, you may need to provide a CultureInfo:
var result = DateTime.Parse("05/11/2010", new CultureInfo("en-US")).Year; // result == 2010 This should work for you.
string myDate = "05/11/2010"; DateTime date = Convert.ToDateTime(myDate); int year = date.Year; If the date string format is fixed (dd/MM/yyyy), I would like to recommend you using DateTime.ParseExact Method.
The code:
const string dateString = "12/02/2012"; CultureInfo provider = CultureInfo.InvariantCulture; // Use the invariant culture for the provider parameter, // because of custom format pattern. DateTime dateTime = DateTime.ParseExact(dateString, "dd/MM/yyyy", provider); Console.WriteLine(dateTime); Also I think it might be a little bit faster than DateTime.Parse Method, because the Parse method tries parsing several representations of date-time string.
you could also used Regex to get the year in the string "05/11/2010"
public string getYear(string str) { return (string)Regex.Match(str, @"\d{4}").Value; } var result = getYear("05/11/2010"); 2010 Variant of dtb that I use:
string Year = DateTime.Parse(DateTime.Now.ToString()).Year.ToString(); 
