Finding if a string contains a date and time

Question

I am working on a project where I am reading in a file which could come in two different formats, one includes a date and time and the other doesn\'t.

When I read i

Answer 1

This worked for us:

If the string value is a valid datetime value, then it will not give any exception:

try
{
    Convert.ToDateTime(string_value).ToString("MM/dd/yyyy");
}

If the string value is an invalid datetime value, then it will give exception:

catch (Exception)
{
}