Regex Substitution

Hi,

I need to substitute an extra colon in my date time field to allow it to be parsed by the DateTime.Parse method. I have tried using the substitution constructs ${name} and the $groupnumber but they in turn stop the validation of my regular expression which was working previously. (Testing using Sells Brothers RegexDesigner). Can some one provide a working example of the substitution construct.

Thanks

tribal

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reggio

Hi Josh,

Thanks a lot, thats just what i needed. My date time string was as follows

"03/Sep/2002:09:49:52" (notice the extra colon after the date)

I used parseexact and it works fine. THe code I used is as follows

DateTime.ParseExact(alphaNumDate.Match(str).Groups["alphanumdate"].Value, "dd/MMM/yyyy:HH:mm:ss", new DateTimeFormatInfo())

Regards,

tribal
AdriaanDavel
Hello Tribal,

Could you post the value of the date-time field as well as the values for the other arguments being passed to the DateTime.Parse method please

Also, instead of modifying the date-time string before calling DateTime.Parse, it might be more appropriate to call DateTime.ParseExact instead and pass in a format string.

Thanks,
Josh Free
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