Parsing into a string from type DateTime

Question

I am trying to convert a DateTime and an int property into a string in a foreach loop. I need to put the information that is stored in the objects properties into the variables and then use that info to write to a text file using StreamWriter. I'm not quite sure what I am doing wrong. Parse is red underlined with this error message -

Error 2 'string' does not contain a definition for 'Parse'

Here is my code -

 public bool Save()
        {
            string appointStart;
            string appointLength;
            string appointDescription;

            foreach (Appointment appointment in appointments)
            {
                appointStart = string.Parse(appointment.Start);
                appointLength = string.Parse(appointment.Length);
                appointDescription = appointment.DisplayableDescription;

            }
            return true;
        }

Thank you

String does not have a Parse method. Are you looking for formatting? — Panagiotis Kanavos
– Panagiotis Kanavos, Commented Jun 8, 2015 at 10:56
Error message is clear. There is method as Parse in String class. Can you please show an example input and outputs? — Soner Gönül
– Soner Gönül, Commented Jun 8, 2015 at 10:56
Parsing is converting from a string into a different type. Formatting is converting from the other type into a string. So you're not parsing into a string - you're formatting a DateTime. — Jon Skeet
– Jon Skeet, Commented Jun 8, 2015 at 10:56

Jehof · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-08 11:00:34Z

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Use the ToString() methods of DateTime and Int32 class to get a string representation of the specified types. Some ToString() methods provide overloads to define the formatting of the string value.

foreach (Appointment appointment in appointments)
{
  appointStart = appointment.Start.ToString();
  appointLength = appointment.Length.ToString();
  appointDescription = appointment.DisplayableDescription;
}

edited Jun 8, 2015 at 11:00

answered Jun 8, 2015 at 10:54

Jehof

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Panagiotis Kanavos Over a year ago

The OP should also take care to use the proper format strings, to avoid writing unexpected values, eg time values when only dates were expected, US date formats instead of ISO etc

Surbhi Harsh · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-08 11:17:37Z

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Why do you need to Parse the DateTime and int into String?? Because if you just want to have the variables in string format, you can simply use .ToString() or Convert.Tostring()

answered Jun 8, 2015 at 11:17

Surbhi Harsh

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Ely Over a year ago

Thank you. I am new to programming and I am learning so I was not aware

Surbhi Harsh Over a year ago

Its okk... Free feel to ask and do me a favour, if my answer was helpful then please mark it as accepted answer and vote it up. Thank You!!

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