How to trasfer a List values to a DateTime datetime values?? Flutter/Dart

Question

I have a List with some string values inside (undefined number of how many but they are dates) i want to convert these values to DateTime and then to store each one to this line:

specialDates:[DateTime(2022, 08, 16),DateTime(2022,08,03)]),

this line only accept DateTime values

Which string list model do you want to convert to date list, I need this string list to understand what to do. — Chance, Aug 17 '22 at 13:32
See [How do I convert a date/time string to a DateTime object in Dart?](https://stackoverflow.com/q/49385303/), but do it in a loop. — jamesdlin, Aug 17 '22 at 15:33

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 17 '22 at 12:54

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If that list have right strings, which could be converted into DateTime, you should follow this snip:

 specialDates = stringsL.map((element) => DateTime.parse(element)).toList();

answered Aug 17 '22 at 12:54

Konstantin Gorynin

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yes you are right, how can i display a spesific index-element from this list now? – Bill Tertis Aug 17 '22 at 14:56
To display elemnt by index in a list, for expamle, in a text widget, you should write like this: `Text(specialDates[i])`, wheres i - integer number, which means position in your list, in a range between 0 (start) and specialDates.length-1 (last element index in list) – Konstantin Gorynin Aug 17 '22 at 16:52

Abion47 · Answer 2 · 2022-08-17T13:11:21.223

I assume that by DateTime<List> you mean List<DateTime>. In this case, you can combine List.map with DateTime.parse to quickly convert the entire string list into a list of Datetime objects.

final strings = [
  '2022-01-01T12:00:00Z',
  '2022-01-02T12:00:00Z',
  '2022-01-03T12:00:00Z',
  '2022-01-04T12:00:00Z',
];

final dates = strings.map((s) => DateTime.parse(s)).toList();

If you wanted to be concise, you could reference DateTime.parse directly so as to eliminate the lambda function entirely:

final dates = strings.map(DateTime.parse).toList();

Note that this assumes that all of the strings in the list are valid date-time strings in a format that DateTime.parse can recognize (such as an ISO-8601 timestamp). If you can't guarantee that will always be the case, instead of DateTime.parse, you want to use DateTime.tryParse. However, tryParse will return a DateTime? instead of a DateTime (meaning it can be null), so if you don't want that, you will need to do a bit more work on the list to filter out the nulls:

final strings = [
  '2022-01-01T12:00:00Z',
  '2022-01-02T12:00:00Z',
  '2022-01-03T12:00:00Z',
  'asdfasd',
  '2022-01-04T12:00:00Z',
];

// Results in a List<DateTime?> with bad strings becoming null
final dates = strings.map(DateTime.tryParse).toList();

// Results in a List<DateTime> with bad strings filtered out
final dates = strings.map(DateTime.tryParse)
                     .where((dt) => dt != null)
                     .cast<DateTime>()
                     .toList();

How to trasfer a List values to a DateTime datetime values?? Flutter/Dart

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