In your opinion what is more readable: ?? (operator) or use of if's

Question

I have a method that will receive a string, but before I can work with it, I have to convert it to int. Sometimes it can be null and I ha

Answer 1

Actually you could refactor to

var value = 0;
int.TryParse(yourString, out value);

either way you always have a valid integer (if that is the goal)