Separate Date and time with " (String.Format)

Question

Is it possible to separate Date and time with ".

So it would be:

"ddMMyyyy","HHmmss"

Right now i have:

DateTime dt = aPacket.dtTimestamp;
string d = dt.ToString("\"ddMMyyyy\",\"HHmmss\"");

and String.Format shows me just "ddMMyyyy,HHmmss"

Thank you everyone for helping me !!! But i will mark the first answer as the right one

Senzer

What you ware expected – Coster

@un-lucky i know that " \"ddMMyyyy\",\"HHmmss\" " and that [ \" ] does nothing , this is why i ask here. – Senzer

Answer 1

You can try formatting:

 DateTime dt = DateTime.Now;
 // "01072016","101511"
 string d = String.Format("\"{0:ddMMyyyy}\",\"{0:HHmmss}\"", dt);  

Balf

Answer 2

" is a formatting character, so it needs to be escaped with \, e.g.

string d = dt.ToString("\\\"ddMMyyyy\\\",\\\"HHmmss\\\"");

You may find a verbatim string slightly more readable:

string d = dt.ToString(@"\""ddMMyyyy\"",\""HHmmss\""");

Custom Date and Time Format Strings (MSDN)

Lanceted

Answer 3

I would say like this:

var now = DateTime.Now;
var date = now.ToString("ddMMyyyy", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
var time = now.ToString("HHmmss", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
var dt = string.Format(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, "\"{0}\",\"{1}\"", date, time);
Console.WriteLine(dt);

Sagacious

Probably would have been wicked if you stored the result of padding it with " and , into a variable rather than doing it time via Console.WriteLine – Aimee

Answer 4

You can try this:

var now = DateTime.Now;
var formattedDateTime = $"{now.ToString("ddMMyyyy")},{now.ToString("HHmmss")}";

Silvana