Andrew Seaford

Explicit Conversion of a string to Integer, sometimes known as cast.

string myString = "7";
int myInt = int.Parse(myString);
Console.WriteLine(myInt);

The above code will fail if the string can not be converted to a integer. For example if myString=”Seven”, the code would fail. To avoid this problem use TryParse.

string myString = "Seven";
int myInt = 0;
if (int.TryParse(myString, out myInt) == true)
{
   Console.WriteLine("String converted");
}
else
{
   Console.WriteLine("String NOT converted");
}
Console.WriteLine(myInt);