Question

Is there an inexpensive way to concatenate integers in csharp?

Example: 1039 & 7056 = 10397056

Answer 1

If you can find a situation where this is expensive enough to cause any concern, I’ll be very impressed:

int a = 1039;
int b = 7056;

int newNumber = int.Parse(a.ToString() + b.ToString())

Or, if you want it to be a little more “.NET-ish”:

int newNumber = Convert.ToInt32(string.Format("{0}{1}", a, b));

int.Parse is not an expensive operation. Spend your time worrying about network I/O and O^N regexes.

Other notes: the overhead of instantiating StringBuilder means there’s no point if you’re only doing a few concatenations. And very importantly – if you are planning to turn this back into an integer, keep in mind it’s limited to ~2,000,000,000. Concatenating numbers gets very large very quickly, and possibly well beyond the capacity of a 32-bit int. (signed of course).