Casting Y or N to bool C#

Question

Just for neatness sake I was wondering, whether it\'s possible to cast Y or N to a bool? Something like this;

bool theanswer = Convert.ToBoolean(input);
         


        

Answer 1

DotNetPerls has a handy class for parsing various string bools.

/// 

/// Parse strings into true or false bools using relaxed parsing rules
/// 
public static class BoolParser
{
    /// 

    /// Get the boolean value for this string
    /// 
    public static bool GetValue(string value)
    {
       return IsTrue(value);
    }

    /// 

    /// Determine whether the string is not True
    /// 
    public static bool IsFalse(string value)
    {
       return !IsTrue(value);
    }

    /// 

    /// Determine whether the string is equal to True
    /// 
    public static bool IsTrue(string value)
    {
       try
       {
            // 1
            // Avoid exceptions
            if (value == null)
            {
                return false;
            }

            // 2
            // Remove whitespace from string
            value = value.Trim();

            // 3
            // Lowercase the string
            value = value.ToLower();

            // 4
            // Check for word true
            if (value == "true")
            {
                return true;
            }

            // 5
            // Check for letter true
            if (value == "t")
            {
                return true;
            }

            // 6
            // Check for one
            if (value == "1")
            {
                return true;
            }

            // 7
            // Check for word yes
            if (value == "yes")
            {
                return true;
            }

            // 8
            // Check for letter yes
            if (value == "y")
            {
                return true;
            }

            // 9
            // It is false
            return false;
        }
        catch
        {
            return false;
        }
    }
}

Is called by;

BoolParser.GetValue("true")
BoolParser.GetValue("1")
BoolParser.GetValue("0")

This could probably be further improved by adding a parameter overload to accept an object.