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The document discusses different ways to check if a date entered by a user is less than or equal to the current date in C#. It provides multiple solutions using DateTime objects and methods like DateTime.ParseExact(), DateTime.Today, and DateTime.Compare() to compare dates without needing to convert them to strings or integers.

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today's date?

Come build the future with u

I need to determined if the date


entered by the user is less than or
4 equals to today's date.

I have the following code which


converts the dates to int and than
compare their values. Is there a more
2 efficient or lean way to get this
accomplished with less lines of code?

How do I do this with far less code or


extraneity?

Code:

class Program
{
public static bool IsDateBeforeOrToday(string input)
{
bool result = true;

if(input != null)
{
DateTime dTCurrent = DateTime.Now;
int currentDateValues = Convert.ToInt32(dTCurrent.ToString("MMddyyyy"));
int inputDateValues = Convert.ToInt32(input.Replace("/", ""));

result = inputDateValues <= currentDateValues;


}
else
{
result = true;
}

return result;
}

static void Main(string[] args)


{
Console.WriteLine(IsDateBeforeOrToday("03/26/2015"));
Console.ReadKey();
}
}

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asked Mar 25 '15 at 14:14
Asynchronous
1,749 14 51 78

1 Are you really asking how to convert


the string to a date so you can check
it? Convert.ToDateTime(input) –
DLeh Mar 25 '15 at 14:16

4 Answers

Instead of converting current date to


string and then int and doing the
18 comparison, convert your parameter
date string to DateTime object and
then compare like:

var parameterDate = DateTime.ParseExa


CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
var todaysDate = DateTime.Today;

if(parameterDate < todaysDate)


{
}

You can have your method as:

public static bool IsDateBeforeOrToda


{
DateTime pDate;
if(!DateTime.TryParseExact(input,
DateTimeStyles.None, out pDate))
{
//Invalid date
//log , show error
return false;
}
return DateTime.Today <= pDate;
}

Use DateTime.TryParseExact if
you want to avoid exception in
parsing.
Use DateTime.Today if you only
want to compare date and
ignore the time part.

answered Mar 25 '15 at 14:16


Habib
183k 23 314 357

@Habib, thanks. These responses


are certainly better than the solution I
designed, which is why I ask the
question, in a effort to code or make
things better. – Asynchronous Mar
25 '15 at 14:46

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Come build the future with u

You could use of


TryParse
TryParseExact which returns bool ,
3 whether parse succeeded or not.

In my first implementation I threw


exception, but it is useless, because
Parse or ParseExact will throw it
automatically if fails. So there is two
options:

Just use Parse and catch


exceptions in Main() ;
Use TryParse and do something
useful in IsDateBeforeOrToday() if
input is wrong.

Implementation:

class Program
{
public static bool IsDateBeforeOr
{
DateTime inputTime;
var parseResult = DateTime.Tr
if (!parseResult)
//Do something useful if
return inputTime <= DateTime.
}

static void Main(string[] args)


{
Console.WriteLine(IsDateBefor
Console.ReadKey();
}
}

edited Mar 25 '15 at 14:31


Patrick Hofman
129k 18 179 238

answered Mar 25 '15 at 14:18


Szer
2,543 11 30

3 If you're going to throw an exception if


TryParse fails, why not just use Parse
instead? – Jon Skeet Mar 25 '15 at
14:21

@JonSkeet yep, you are right. My


bad... – Szer Mar 25 '15 at 14:21

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You could use the


DateTime.Compare method. You
1 could do this:

DateTime dTCurrent = DateTime.Now;


DateTime inputDate = DateTime.ParseEx
CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

int result = DateTime.Compare(dTCurre

The int 'result' would indicate if


dTCurrent is less than inputDate (less
than 0), same as (0) or greater than
(greater than 0).

answered Mar 25 '15 at 14:23


sr28
2,095 4 17 41

You can use DateTime.Compare() If


Result is less than that means first
0 date is less than second and 0 means
equal and greater

DateTime dileverydate = Convert.ToDat


var todaysDate = DateTime.Today;
int result = DateTime.Compare(dilever

edited Dec 17 '18 at 0:11


Alexander I.
993 2 8 25

answered Dec 16 '18 at 21:24


waqar
1 1

1 How is this different from this answer


from more than 3 years ago? –
Heretic Monkey Dec 16 '18 at 21:30

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