Parsing a Date Like “Wednesday 13th January 2010” with .NET

Question

How can I convert the following strings to a System.DateTime object?

Wednesday 13th January 2010
Thursday 21st January 2010
Wednesday 3rd February 2010

Answer 1

Another alternative using escape characters for handling (st, nd, rd, and th) without stripping them before the call of DateTime.TryParseExact

string dtstr = "Saturday 23rd January 2016";
DateTime dt;
string[] formats = new string[] { 
    "ffffdd d\\s\\t MMMM yyyy", "ffffdd d\\n\\d MMMM yyyy",
    "ffffdd d\\r\\d MMMM yyyy", "ffffdd d\\t\\h MMMM yyyy" };
bool result = DateTime.TryParseExact(dtstr, formats, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, DateTimeStyles.None, out dt);