Question

i need discover a type.

scenario:

I receive from DB a unkown type and want classificate if him is Numeric or Alphanumeric how i can do that?

eg:

public object GetUnkown(){….};

var x = GetUnkown();

x is numeric or alphanumeric?have only two these possibilities.

Answer 1

To test if it can be parsed as an integer:

int xInt;


CultureInfo culture = new CultureInfo("en-US");    
bool isInteger = int.TryParse(x, NumberStyles.AllowThousands, culture, out xInt);

if (isInteger)
{

}
else
{
 string xString = x.ToString();
}