Sorting months in a list

Question

I have a list of strings which contains months of the year. I need to be able to sort this list so the months are in order by month, not alphabetically. I have been search

Answer 1

You could parse the string into a DateTime and then sort using the month integer property. See here for supported month names: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.globalization.datetimeformatinfo.monthnames.aspx

Something like this:

var sortedMonths = monthList
    .Select(x => new { Name = x, Sort = DateTime.ParseExact(x, "MMMM", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture) })
    .OrderBy(x => x.Sort.Month)
    .Select(x => x.Name)
    .ToArray();