I just want to know, whether a String variable contains a parsable positive integer value. I do NOT want to parse the value right now.
Currently I am doing:
int parsedId;
if (
(String.IsNullOrEmpty(myStringVariable) ||
(!uint.TryParse(myStringVariable, out parsedId))
)
{//..show error message}
This is ugly - How to be more concise?
Note: I know about extension methods, but I wonder if there is something built-in.
You could use char.IsDigit:
bool isIntString = "your string".All(char.IsDigit)
Will return true
if the string is a number
bool containsInt = "your string".Any(char.IsDigit)
Will return true
if the string contains a digit
Assuming you want to check that all characters in the string are digits, you could use the Enumerable.All Extension Method with the Char.IsDigit Method as follows:
bool allCharactersInStringAreDigits = myStringVariable.All(char.IsDigit);
You can check if string contains numbers only:
Regex.IsMatch(myStringVariable, @"^-?\d+$")
But number can be bigger than Int32.MaxValue
or less than Int32.MinValue
- you should keep that in mind.
Another option - create extension method and move ugly code there:
public static bool IsInteger(this string s)
{
if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(s))
return false;
int i;
return Int32.TryParse(s, out i);
}
That will make your code more clean:
if (myStringVariable.IsInteger())
// ...
Maybe this can help
string input = "hello123world";
bool isDigitPresent = input.Any(c => char.IsDigit(c));
answer from msdn.
The answer seems to be just no.
Although there are many good other answers, they either just hide the uglyness (which I did not ask for) or introduce new problems (edge cases).
Sorry, didn't quite get your question. So something like this?
str.ToCharArray().Any(char.IsDigit);
Or does the value have to be an integer completely, without any additional strings?
if(str.ToCharArray().All(char.IsDigit(c));