How to get hour min and am/pm from string that contains HH:MM AM/PM?

Question

I got string like this :

"10:00 AM"

"11:30 AM"

"12:00 AM"

from this stringi I want to know HOUR and Mins and AM / or PM as separate values.

Answer 1

You can use String.Split(String[], StringSplitOptions) method like;

string s = "10:00 AM";
var array = s.Split(new string[] {":", " "}, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
Console.WriteLine(array[0]); //10
Console.WriteLine(array[1]); //00
Console.WriteLine(array[2]); //AM

Output will be;

10
00
AM

Here a demonstration.

Or better way, you can use Convert.ToDateTime(String) method for your string like;

var dt = Convert.ToDateTime("10:00 AM");
Console.WriteLine(dt.Hour);
Console.WriteLine(dt.Minute);
Console.WriteLine(dt.ToString("tt"), CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

Output will be;

10
0
AM

Here a demonstration.

EDIT: As andleer mentioned, using DateTime.Parse can a better option.

Answer 2

You can parse into a DateTime object like this:

string timeString = "10:00 AM";
DateTime timeObject = DateTime.ParseExact(timeString, "hh:mm tt", null);

Answer 3

You can use Substring() function to get the Part of the String

Syntax: Substring(int startIndex,int length);

Sample1:

String strDate = "10:00 AM";
String HH = strDate.Substring(0, 2);//10
String MM = strDate.Substring(3, 2);//00
String tt= strDate.Substring(6, 2);//AM

Console.WriteLine(HH+":"+MM+" "+tt);

Output: 10:00 AM

You can also use ToString() function get the required part of Time

Sample2:

DateTime myDate = Convert.ToDateTime(strDate);
Console.WriteLine(myDate.ToString("HH"));
Console.WriteLine(myDate.ToString("mm"));
Console.WriteLine(myDate.ToString("tt",System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture));

Output:

10  
00  
AM