int.TryParse syntatic sugar

Question

int.TryPrase is great and all, but there is only one problem...it takes at least two lines of code to use:

int intValue;
string stringValue = \"         


        

Answer 1

You do not WANT to make int.TryParse() one line. Why? Because you can't make an assignment to intValue if the input string isn't a valid integer. The whole point of TryParse() is to allow you to test for good input and degrade gracefully, rather than having to catch an exception.

Int.TryParse() is already a shortcut so you don't have to test for a valid int and do the assignment in two steps... that's as far as you want to take it.