Split out ints from string

Question

Let\'s say I have a web page that currently accepts a single ID value via a url parameter:
http://example.com/mypage.aspx?ID=1234

I want to change it to acce

Answer 1

I think the easiest way is to split as shown before, and then loop through the values and try to convert to int.

class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        string queryString = "1234,4321,6789";

        int[] ids = ConvertCommaSeparatedStringToIntArray(queryString);
    }

    private static int[] ConvertCommaSeparatedStringToIntArray(string csString)
    {
        //splitting string to substrings
        string[] idStrings = csString.Split(',');

        //initializing int-array of same length
        int[] ids = new int[idStrings.Length];

        //looping all substrings
        for (int i = 0; i < idStrings.Length; i++)
        {
            string idString = idStrings[i];

            //trying to convert one substring to int
            int id;
            if (!int.TryParse(idString, out id))
                throw new FormatException(String.Format("Query string contained malformed id '{0}'", idString));

            //writing value back to the int-array
            ids[i] = id;
        }

        return ids;
    }
}