In Powershell what is the idiomatic way of converting a string to an int?

Question

The only method I have found is a direct cast:

> $numberAsString = \"10\"
> [int]$numberAsString
10

Is this the standard approach in

Answer 1

For me $numberAsString -as [int] of @Shay Levy is the best practice, I also use [type]::Parse(...) or [type]::TryParse(...)

But, depending on what you need you can just put a string containing a number on the right of an arithmetic operator with a int on the left the result will be an Int32:

PS > $b = "10"
PS > $a = 0 + $b
PS > $a.gettype()

IsPublic IsSerial Name                                     BaseType
-------- -------- ----                                     --------
True     True     Int32                                    System.ValueType

You can use Exception (try/parse) to behave in case of Problem