Elegant one-line way to use TryParse

Izabela Wlodarska — Sun, 15 Apr 2018 18:31:35 +0000

I don’t know how about you, but for me using int.TryParse() always feel somehow not right, resulting in an ugly three lines of code to do just one operation:

int value;
if (!int.TryParse(valueToParseFromString, out value)
   value = 0;

If you are looking for cleaner code to satisfy your inner pedant you can use this one-line solution instead:

int value = int.TryParse(valueToParseFromString, out value) ? value : 0;

It will parse the valueToParseFromString and on success assign it to the value variable, otherwise it will return 0.

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Elegant one-line way to use TryParse