Parsing Date

[Cran56]

Hey all,
I need to create a date format that is 8/15/2004 but without the "/"'s. This is the code i'm using to get the date as it is now.

theTime.Now.ToShortDateString()

That gives me 7/31/2004, but how do I take out the /'s. Anyone know how to do that.

Cran56

[hellswraith]

Can't you do something like this:
Dim myString As String
myString = DateTime.Now.ToShortDateString()
myString = myString.Replace("/", "")


I haven't loaded up VS or anything to verify it, but it might get you close.

[RichardAtherton]

or you might try

dim MyDate as string = format(Now,"MMddyyyy")

[hellswraith]

Duh...lol, thanks for pointing that out.

You can get rid of the format function call and just use the overloaded .ToString() method:

mystring = DateTime.ToString("MMddyyyy")

[RichardAtherton]

LOL - there is always a better way!

[taxes]

Originally posted by hellswraith
Duh...lol, thanks for pointing that out.

You can get rid of the format function call and just use the overloaded .ToString() method:

mystring = DateTime.ToString("MMddyyyy")

Does not work for me because

"Reference to a non shared member requires an object reference"

[brown monkey]

hello taxes. i guess, just a small error. as hellswraith has no vs to play with. it's

dim s as string=datetime.now.tostring("MMddyyyy")