Question

I need to interop with some C# code with F#. Null is a possible value that it is given so I need to check if the value was null. The docs suggest using pattern matching as such:

match value with
| null -> ...
| _ -> ...

The problem I’m having is the original code is structured in C# as:

if ( value != null ) {
    ...
}

How do I do the equivalent in F#? Is there a no-op for pattern matching? Is there a way to check for null with an if statement?

Answer 1

If you don’t want to do anything in the null case, then you can use the unit value ():

match value with
| null -> ()
| _ -> // your code here

Of course, you could also do the null check just like in C#, which is probably clearer in this case:

if value <> null then
    // your code here