A string can be converted to a time in Golang using the Parse
function within the time
package.
time.Parse(format, dateString)
The Parse
function accepts the following parameters:
format
: The format in which the time (output) should be. For example DD-MM-YYYY
.dateString
: The string that needs to be converted to time.The Parse
function will return a Golang time object.
In the following code, we will convert a string to time using the Parse
function:
package main import ( "fmt" "time" ) func main() { dateString := "2021-11-22" date, error := time.Parse("2006-01-02", dateString) if error != nil { fmt.Println(error) return } fmt.Printf("Type of dateString: %T\n", dateString) fmt.Printf("Type of date: %T\n", date) fmt.Println() fmt.Printf("Value of dateString: %v\n", dateString) fmt.Printf("Value of date: %v", date) }
In lines 3-6, we have imported the necessary packages.
Inside the main() function, we have declared a string dateString
and initialized it with 2021-11-22
in line #9.
In line #10, we then converted the string to date using the time.Parse()
function by passing two parameters; the format
and the dateString
.
If there occurs some error while conversion, we output it on the console (line 13).
If there are no errors, we output the type and value of dateString
and date
respectively on the console (line17-21).
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