Int16.TryParse Method (String, Int16)

public static bool TryParse (
	string s,
	out short result
)

public static boolean TryParse (
	String s, 
	/** @attribute OutAttribute() */ /** @ref */ short result
)

Not applicable.

Parameters

s

A string containing a number to convert.

result

When this method returns, contains the 16-bit signed integer value equivalent to the number contained in s, if the conversion succeeded, or zero if the conversion failed. The conversion fails if the s parameter is a null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic), is not of the correct format, or represents a number less than MinValue or greater than MaxValue. This parameter is passed uninitialized.

Return Value

The Int16.TryParse(String,Int16) method differs from the Int16.Parse(String) method by returning a Boolean value that indicates whether the parse operation succeeded instead of returning the parsed Int16 value. It eliminates the need to use exception handling to test for a FormatException in the event that s is invalid and cannot be successfully parsed.

The s parameter should be the string representation of a number in the form:

[ws][sign]digits[ws]

Items in square brackets ([ and ]) are optional. The following table describes each element.

The s parameter is interpreted using the NumberStyles.Integer style. In addition to the byte value's decimal digits, only leading and trailing spaces together with a leading sign are allowed. To explicitly define the style elements together with the culture-specific formatting information that can be present in s, use the Int16.TryParse(String,NumberStyles,IFormatProvider,Int16) method.

The s parameter is parsed using the formatting information in a NumberFormatInfo object initialized for the current system culture. For more information, see CurrentInfo.

This overload of the TryParse method interprets all digits in the s parameter as decimal digits. To parse the string representation of a hexadecimal number, call the Int16.TryParse(String,NumberStyles,IFormatProvider,Int16) overload.

The following example calls the Int16.TryParse(String,Int16)method with a number of different string values.

Windows 98, Windows Server 2000 SP4, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Starter Edition

The Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 is supported on Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP SP2, and Windows Server 2003 SP1.

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