ToString(String) Method

TdDate is converted to the equivalent String using the specified format.

Syntax

'Declaration
 
Public Overloads Function ToString( _
   ByVal format As String _
) As String

'Usage
 
Dim instance As TdDate
Dim format As String
Dim value As String
 
value = instance.ToString(format)

public string ToString( 
   string format
)

public:
String^ ToString( 
   String^ format
)

format: The DateTime format string that will be used to format the TdDate.

A string representation of the date in TdDate.

Exceptions

Exception	Description
System.FormatException	The format is invalid.

Remarks

If the format parameter is null, the string representation of TdDate will be equivalent to the "G" format specifier which is "yyyy-MM-dd".

If the this instance is TdDate.Null, a string that contains "Null" will be returned.

The format specifiers that are supported are as follows:

Format Specifier	Description
d	Short date pattern.
D	Long date pattern.
G	The ANSI string representation. For TdDate the format will be an ANSI Date "yyyy-MM-dd". Cultural information is ignored.
M or m	Month day pattern
L or l	The Teradata literal representation of a Date.
Y or y	Year month pattern

For more information on format specifiers refer to the Globalization.DateTimeFormatInfo in the MSDN documentation.

Requirements