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c#parsingintegercompare

How to parse a month name (string) to an integer for comparison in C#?

I need to be able to compare some month names I have in an array.

It would be nice if there were some direct way like:

Month.toInt("January") > Month.toInt("May")

My Google searching seems to suggest the only way is to write your own method, but this seems like a common enough problem that I would think it would have been already implemented in .Net, anyone done this before?

Solution

  • DateTime.ParseExact(monthName, "MMMM", CultureInfo.CurrentCulture ).Month

    Although, for your purposes, you'll probably be better off just creating a Dictionary<string, int> mapping the month's name to its value.