/// <summary>
/// Converts a string to a DateTime object
/// </summary>
/// <param name="value"></param>
/// <param name="delimiter">The delimiter of the date string. Eg: '-', '/' etc </param>
/// <param name="dateFormat">The format of the date string.</param>
/// <returns></returns>
public static DateTime ToDateTime(this string value, DateFormat dateFormat = DateFormat.YYYYMMDD, char delimiter = '-')
{
if (value != null && value.Length >= 8)
{
int[] splitDate;
switch (dateFormat)
{
case DateFormat.YYYYMMDD:
var splitString = value.Split(new[] { delimiter }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
splitDate = splitString.ToIntArray();
return(new DateTime(splitDate[0], splitDate[1], splitDate[2]));
case DateFormat.MMMDDYYYY:
var dateSplit = value.Replace(",", string.Empty).Split(new[] { ' ' }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
return(new DateTime(int.Parse(dateSplit[2]), BetterDate.GetNumberOfShortMonth(dateSplit[0]), int.Parse(dateSplit[1])));
default:
return(new DateTime());
}
}
return(DateTime.Now);
}
