Always fails to convert to datetime because of backslash-CodePudding

I have a json string date value as below:

{[
   {
     "id": "2044020453",
     "startDate": "2022-11-19T04:14:11 07:00",
     "endDate": "2022-11-19T04:14:11 07:00",
  }
]}

string endDate = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(jo["endDate"], Formatting.None, new 
JsonSerializerSettings
{
   DateTimeZoneHandling = DateTimeZoneHandling.Utc
});


endDate value is "\"2022-11-18T21:14:11Z\""

DateTime endDateTime = DateTime.ParseExact(endDate, "yyyy-MM- 
ddTHH:mm:ssZ",System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

Always fails to convert to date because there is a backslash in-front and end of the "endDate"

how to clean the backslash?

I have tried:

endDate.Replace("\\", "") --> no luck
Regex.Unescape(endDate) also no luck

anybody can help?

CodePudding user response：

It looks like there is no backslash but a quote character around the string, which is just escaped by the backslash. So actually the string is:

"2022-11-18T21:14:11Z"

then you can trim it:

endDate = endDate.Trim('"');

and then parse it:

DateTime endDateTime = DateTime.Parse(endDate, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

DEMO

CodePudding user response：

It's a double quote that needs to be removed:

endDate.Replace("\"", "")