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

Create a extension method for string that does something similar to what you specify in the second algorithm, thus cleaning up your code:

public static bool ToBool(this string input)
{
    // input will never be null, as you cannot call a method on a null object
    if (input.Equals("y", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
    {
         return true;
    }
    else if (input.Equals("n", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
    {
         return false;
    }
    else
    {
         throw new Exception("The data is not in the correct format.");
    }
}

and call the code:

if (aString.ToBool())
{
     // do something
}