C# string Parsing to variable types

Question

I want to parse a string into a type easily, but I don\'t want to write wrapper code for each type, I just want to be able to do \"1234\".Parse() or the like and have it return

Answer 1

You can do this with a series of .TryParse() if blocks, but you won't be able to do much with it, since this method will have to return type object. So at the call site, you'll just have to attempt to cast it before doing any arithmetic or anything anyway.