In C#, how to check whether a string contains an integer?

Question

I just want to know, whether a String variable contains a parsable positive integer value. I do NOT want to parse the value right now.

Currently I

Answer 1

You can check if string contains numbers only:

Regex.IsMatch(myStringVariable, @"^-?\d+$")

But number can be bigger than Int32.MaxValue or less than Int32.MinValue - you should keep that in mind.

Another option - create extension method and move ugly code there:

public static bool IsInteger(this string s)
{
   if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(s))
       return false;

   int i;
   return Int32.TryParse(s, out i);
}

That will make your code more clean:

if (myStringVariable.IsInteger())
    // ...