How do I identify if a string is a number?

Question

If I have these strings:

1. "abc" = false

2. "123" = true

3. "ab2" = false

Is there a command, like IsNumeric or something else, that can identify if a string is a valid number?

Answer 1

Hope this helps

string myString = "abc";
double num;
bool isNumber = double.TryParse(myString , out num);

if isNumber 
{
//string is number
}
else
{
//string is not a number
}

Answer 2

public static bool IsNumeric(this string input)
{
    int n;
    if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(input)) //.Replace('.',null).Replace(',',null)
    {
        foreach (var i in input)
        {
            if (!int.TryParse(i.ToString(), out n))
            {
                return false;
            }

        }
        return true;
    }
    return false;
}

Answer 3

//To my knowledge I did this in a simple way
static void Main(string[] args)
{
    string a, b;
    int f1, f2, x, y;
    Console.WriteLine("Enter two inputs");
    a = Convert.ToString(Console.ReadLine());
    b = Console.ReadLine();
    f1 = find(a);
    f2 = find(b);

    if (f1 == 0 && f2 == 0)
    {
        x = Convert.ToInt32(a);
        y = Convert.ToInt32(b);
        Console.WriteLine("Two inputs r number \n so that addition of these text box is= " + (x + y).ToString());
    }
    else
        Console.WriteLine("One or two inputs r string \n so that concatenation of these text box is = " + (a + b));
    Console.ReadKey();
}

static int find(string s)
{
    string s1 = "";
    int f;
    for (int i = 0; i < s.Length; i++)
       for (int j = 0; j <= 9; j++)
       {
           string c = j.ToString();
           if (c[0] == s[i])
           {
               s1 += c[0];
           }
       }

    if (s == s1)
        f = 0;
    else
        f = 1;

    return f;
}

Answer 4

int n;
bool isNumeric = int.TryParse("123", out n);

Update As of C# 7:

var isNumeric = int.TryParse("123", out int n);

The var s can be replaced by their respective types!

Answer 5

This is probably the best option in C#.

If you want to know if the string contains a whole number (integer):

string someString;
// ...
int myInt;
bool isNumerical = int.TryParse(someString, out myInt);

The TryParse method will try to convert the string to a number (integer) and if it succeeds it will return true and place the corresponding number in myInt. If it can't, it returns false.

Solutions using the int.Parse(someString) alternative shown in other responses works, but it is much slower because throwing exceptions is very expensive. TryParse(...) was added to the C# language in version 2, and until then you didn't have a choice. Now you do: you should therefore avoid the Parse() alternative.

If you want to accept decimal numbers, the decimal class also has a .TryParse(...) method. Replace int with decimal in the above discussion, and the same principles apply.