Strange error when parsing string to date?

Question

When I try to parse date like this:

DateTime t1 = DateTime.ParseExact(\"August 11, 2013, 11:00:00 PM\", \"MMMM dd, yyyy, hh:mm:ss tt\", System.Globalization.         


        

Answer 1

Because your string

string s = "‎August ‎11, ‎2013, ‏‎11:00:00 PM";

Includes 0x200e(8206) character at the beginning and end of August. You can see it easily by

var chars = s.ToCharArray();

Seems to be a copy+paste problem

You can remove those chars by:

var newstr = new string(s.Where(c => c <128).ToArray())