Get the Substring of a List in C#

Question

I am about to get the substring of a list. Here is my LINQ. (Read the XML from a third-party service.)

 var Payment = from Main in xml.Descendants(ns + "OTA_AirBookRQ")
               select new
               {
                   DepartureDate = Main
                                   .Elements(ns+"Segment")
                                   .Elements(ns+"DepartureDate")
                                   .ToList(),
               }

Payment.DepartureDate[0].Value returns a date as "2012-11-14T19:05:00". All I need to get from this is "19:05:00" . How do I achieve this?

Please let me know if you need more information.

@Oded Thanks for your replay. I tried like foreach(var a in Payment){a.DepatureDatetime.Findlastindex("T");} — Thiri
– Thiri, Commented Nov 10, 2012 at 10:46
@Oded If it is a string it possible, string polo = "Chennai(Madras)"; int index=polo.LastIndexOf("("); string mas = polo.Substring(0, index); But i dont know with List — Thiri
– Thiri, Commented Nov 10, 2012 at 10:49
Your question is not quite clear: What does it mean to "get a substring of a list"? Should your final result be a single time value, or another list? I.e. do you need to extract the time component for each Payment.DepartureDate[n].Value, or only for the first element? — stakx - no longer contributing
– stakx - no longer contributing, Commented Nov 10, 2012 at 10:50

L.B · Accepted Answer · 2012-11-10 10:40:41Z

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DateTime.Parse("2012-11-14T19:05:00").ToString("HH:mm:ss");

answered Nov 10, 2012 at 10:40

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Thiri Over a year ago

Thanks a lot.,I tried DateTime.Parse(chk.DepartureDateTime[0].Value).ToString("HH:mm:ss"); It is working excellent., thanks again

L.B Over a year ago

My guess ((DateTime)chk.DepartureDateTime[0]).ToString("HH:mm:ss") should also work

mcalex · Accepted Answer · 2012-11-10 10:42:48Z

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It makes more sense to do this with the DateTime.Parse(dateString) method, but if you must use substrings, simply go: string.substring(firstPos, length); (in your case - assuming your date string is named strDate: strDate.substring(9, strDate.length-1);

Substrings: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.string.substring(v=vs.100).aspx

Date Time parsing: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/1k1skd40.aspx

answered Nov 10, 2012 at 10:42

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Thiri Over a year ago

Thanks i will check with it.

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