Parse string to TimeSpan

Question

I have some strings of xxh:yym format where xx is hours and yy is minutes like \"05h:30m\". What is an elegant way to convert a string of this type to TimeSpan?

Answer 1

Are TimeSpan.Parse and TimeSpan.TryParse not options? If you aren't using an "approved" format, you'll need to do the parsing manually. I'd probably capture your two integer values in a regular expression, and then try to parse them into integers, from there you can create a new TimeSpan with its constructor.