String yy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS convert to datetime in C# [duplicate]

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How can convert this string yy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS to datetime in c#?

Minus one because this question shows no research effort on your part. Surely googling this would have been pretty easy... — rory.ap
– rory.ap, Commented May 26, 2016 at 14:28
I didn't answer anything, and your comment doesn't make any sense. If you hover your cursor over the down-vote button, the first thing shown for a reason is "does not show any research effort". — rory.ap
– rory.ap, Commented May 26, 2016 at 14:35

Rion Williams · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-26 14:40:01Z

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You can use the DateTime.ParseExact() method and define the exact format string that you are expecting to receive :

// This will parse a DateTime object using the "yy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.fff" format 
var date = DateTime.ParseExact(input,"yy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.fff", null);

This assumes that the Y characters will represent a two-digit year and the S characters you were looking for would be considered fractional seconds, which have been converted to the y and f formats respectively.

Example

You can see a working example of this here.

edited May 26, 2016 at 14:40

answered May 26, 2016 at 14:29

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Sezer Erdogan Over a year ago

rion I will try your answer

Rion Williams Over a year ago

I've added an example that you can use to test it out.

Sezer Erdogan Over a year ago

Thanks Rion.it is working fine.Some people dont enough read my question so he give me minus point .But you understand me correct so very thanks .

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