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);
As suggested by Jon, there's nothing inbuilt like this. The answer posted by John gives you a correct way of doing. Just for more clarification, you can visit:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/86hw82a3.aspxlink text