Hi everyone, Can you please assist me here in this error:
Assign: Conversion from string “12/15/1999 00:00:00” to type ‘Date’ is not valid.
Use Datetime.ParseExact(inceptiondt2,“yyyy-MM-dd”,System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture) so you can explicitly tell it the datetime format.
On this one there is no error.
That’s because the last digits (01) are a valid month, but for 1999-12-15, 15 is not a valid month. Your logic has it thinking the last two digits are the month.
Where do I put it, and what do I remove?
Replace your CDate expression with the Datetime.ParseExact
Please remove Cdate from the right side of assign and then use .ToString("MM/dd/yyyy")
final expression - Datetime.ParseExact(inceptiondt2,"yyyy-MM-dd",System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture).ToString("MM/dd/yyyy")
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Should I use this from my original expression, if you have example please show me how
Use assign like below
inceptiondt2 = Datetime.ParseExact(inceptiondate,"yyyy-MM-dd",System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture).ToString("MM/dd/yyyy")
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No, replace the entire CDate expression with the Datetime.ParseExact I gave you. Don’t put the Datetime.ParseExact inside the CDate.
Jep, I did it threw an error
As per error we can see that inceptiondate is emty…did you assign currentrow("Column").ToString to it?
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The date on the database is displayed like this:
I want it in the format:
If inceptiondt2 is a string you can’t assign a datetime to it.
What are you trying to do here? CDate and Datetime.Parse return datetime values, not string. Adding .ToString on the end converts it to a date. Also, you don’t assign to System.Globalization and don’t have to assign to inceptiondate that’s just extra unnecessary work. If you’re trying to get a datetime value into inceptiondt2 then use…
assign inceptiondt2 = Datetime.ParseExact(DT_Connect.Rows(0)(“CommencemendtDate”).ToString,“yyyy-MM-dd”,System.Globilization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)
If inceptiondt2 is string and that’s what you want, then add .ToString(format) onto the end of that.
Also, DT_Connect.Rows(0) will only give you the value that’s in the first row of the datatable. Is that what you want or are you trying to do the conversion to multiple rows? Are you trying to assign the modified value back to the datatable?
Hi @Anelisa_Bolosha1 ,
Could also check with the below post on recognising the formats of the date (as sometimes the date format from Excel and Datatable differs) and using the appropriate date format after the analysis is done :
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