13.5. Parsing

Date parsing is an attempt to parse a string formatted as a date. Numbers can also be parsed. Listing 13.10 shows parsing of dates and numbers. Typically in Java, a good way to quickly check whether a string is a date or a number is to parse it and check for any exceptions thrown. The same technique works in C#.

Listing 13.10. Parsing of Numbers and Dates (C#)
using System;

public class Test {
  public static void Main(string[] args) {

    Console.WriteLine(Int32.Parse("556"));
    try {
      Console.WriteLine(Double.Parse("45764"));
    } catch (FormatException e) {
      Console.WriteLine(e.StackTrace);
    }
    try {
      Console.WriteLine(DateTime.Parse("12/3/2002"));
    } catch (FormatException e) {
      Console.WriteLine(e.StackTrace);
    }
  }
}

Listing 13.10 shows a ...

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