Why can't I assign null to decimal with ternary operator?

Question

I can\'t understand why this won\'t work

decimal? compRetAmount = !string.IsNullOrEmpty(txtLineCompRetAmt.Text) 
    ? decimal.Parse(txtLineCompRetAmt.Text.R         


        

Answer 1

Don't use decimal.Parse.

Convert.ToDecimal will return 0 if it is given a null string. decimal.Parse will throw an ArgumentNullException if the string you want to parse is null.