Question

I encountered a problem while parsing XML in C# with XMLReader.

Here is an example:

string text = xNode.ReadElementContentAsString().Length > 0 ? xBonusesNode.ReadElementContentAsString() : null;
int nmb = xNode.ReadElementContentAsInt();

So, where I’m trying to get string value there is simple inline if statement to check if element has data or not.

How can I do something similar with integer? Or how to catch exception correctly and in best way, for this?

Answer 1

You can use int.TryParse like this:

  int number;
  bool result = Int32.TryParse(xNode.ReadElementContentAsString, out number);