Utility class

The StringUtils utility class contains methods for a number of different purposes in relation to parsing or manipulating strings.

Parsing

.NET generally has a lot of great methods for parsing strings into other types, but these methods will fail if they see a format that they don't recognize.

ParseBoolean

For instance, there are a number of different ways to represent a boolean value as a string. The Parse and TryParse methods in .NET only knows about true and false as boolean values, but not values such as True and False or 1 and 0. If the

In Skybrud.Essentials, the ParseBoolean method will look for known variations of true, but otherwise return false if the value isn't recognized. No exceptions are thrown. Supported string values are true, 1, t and on (all case-insensitive).

ParseInt32

In a similar way to parsing booleans, you can parse a string value into an integer using the ParseInt32 method. If the parsing fails, 0 will be returned instead of the method throwing any exceptions.

// Returns "42"
int value1 = StringUtils.ParseInt32("42");

// Returns "0"
int value2 = StringUtils.ParseInt32("hello");

An overload of the methods also let's you specify a fallback - so if the parsing fails, it wil return your fallback value instead of 0:

// Returns "123"
int value2 = StringUtils.ParseInt32("hello", 123);

ParseInt32Array

If you have a string with multiple integer values, you can use the ParseInt32Array method for parsing the string value into an actual array of integers:

int[] value = StringUtils.ParseInt32Array("1,2,3,4");

The method will detect the , (comma), (space), \r (carriage return), \n (newline) and \t (tab) characters as separators by default, but you can also explicitly specify the separators to be used:

int[] value = StringUtils.ParseInt32Array("1¤2@3?4", '¤', '@', '?');

Any values that isn't recognized will be ignored, so again this method is safe to use without any risks of exceptions.