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C# C# Streams and Data Processing Parsing Data Working with DateTime

Posted by Erik Hainer
Erik Hainer
3,049 Points

Honestly not sure what I'm doing wrong

I couldn't figure out how to set the values[0] to the weatherStationId property so I tried to parse it but it doesn't work either. Any advice? (probably asking you steven)

Program.cs 
using System;
using System.IO;

namespace Treehouse.CodeChallenges
{
    public class Program
    {
        public static void Main(string[] arg)
        {
        }

        public static WeatherForecast ParseWeatherForecast(string[] values)
        {
            var weatherForecast = new WeatherForecast();

            DateTime timeOfDay;
            if (DateTime.TryParse(values[1], out timeOfDay))
            {
                weatherForecast.TimeOfDay = timeOfDay;
            }
             weatherStationId = new WeatherForecast.WeatherStationId();
             if (WeatherStationId.TryParse(values[0], out weatherStationId))
            {
                WeatherForecast.WeatherStationId = weatherStationId;
            }
            return weatherForecast;
        }
    }
}
WeatherForecast.cs 
using System;

/* Sample CSV Data 

weather_station_id,time_of_day,condition,temperature,precipitation_chance,precipitation_amount
HGKL8Q,06/11/2016 0:00,Rain,53,0.3,0.03
HGKL8Q,06/11/2016 6:00,Cloudy,56,0.08,0.01
HGKL8Q,06/11/2016 12:00,PartlyCloudy,70,0,0
HGKL8Q,06/11/2016 18:00,Sunny,76,0,0
HGKL8Q,06/11/2016 19:00,Clear,74,0,0
*/

namespace Treehouse.CodeChallenges
{
    public class WeatherForecast
    {
        public string WeatherStationId { get; set; }
        public DateTime TimeOfDay { get; set;}
    }
}

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points

Your description of what to do sounds correct, but it looks like you may have used the class name (with capital "W") instead of the variable name (with lower case "w"). You don't need to do any parsing or anything fancy, just make a simple assignment:

            weatherForecast.WeatherStationId = values[0];