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

bool theanswer = input.ToLower() == "y";

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

class Program
{
    void StringInput(string str)
    {
        string[] st1 = str.Split(' ');

        if (st1 != null)
        {
            string a = str.Substring(0, 1);
            string b=str.Substring(str.Length-1,1);

             if(
                a=="^" && b=="^" 
                || a=="{" && b=="}" 
                || a=="[" && b=="]"
                ||a=="<" && b==">" 
                ||a=="(" && b==")"
                )

            {
                Console.Write("ok Formate correct");
            }
            else
            {
                Console.Write("Sorry incorrect formate...");
            }
        }
    }
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        ubaid: ;
        Program one = new Program();
        Console.Write("For exit Press N ");
        Console.Write("\n");
        Console.Write("Enter your value...=");
        string ub = Console.ReadLine();

        if (ub == "Y" || ub=="y" || ub=="N" || ub=="n" )
        {
            Console.Write("Are your want to Exit Y/N: ");
            string ui = Console.ReadLine();
            if (ui == "Y" || ui=="y")
            {
                return;
            }
            else
            {
                goto ubaid;
            }

        }
        one.StringInput(ub);           
        Console.ReadLine();
        goto ubaid;
    }
}

Answer 4

Wonea gave an "IsTrue" source example from DotNetPerls. Here are two shorter versions of it:

public static bool IsTrue(string value)
{
    // Avoid exceptions
    if (value == null)
        return false;

    // Remove whitespace from string and lowercase it.
    value = value.Trim().ToLower();

    return value == "true"
        || value == "t"
        || value == "1"
        || value == "yes"
        || value == "y";
}

OR:

private static readonly IReadOnlyCollection<string> LOWER_TRUE_VALUES = new string[] { "true", "t", "1", "yes", "y" };

public static bool IsTrue(string value)
{
    return value != null
        ? LOWER_TRUE_VALUES.Contains(value.Trim().ToLower())
        : false;
}

Heck, if you want to get real short (and ugly), you can collapse that down to two lines like this:

private static readonly IReadOnlyCollection<string> LOWER_TRUE_VALUES = new string[] { "true", "t", "1", "yes", "y" };
public static bool IsTrue(string value) => value != null ? LOWER_TRUE_VALUES.Contains(value.Trim().ToLower()) : false;