Cast negative number to unsigned types (ushort, uint or ulong)

问题

How to cast some negative number to unsigned types.

Type type = typeof (ushort);
short num = -100;

ushort num1 = unchecked ((ushort) num); //When type is known. Result 65436

ushort num2 = unchecked(Convert.ChangeType(num, type)); //Need here the same value

回答1:

There are only 4 types. so simply you can write your own method for that.

private static object CastToUnsigned(object number)
{
    Type type = number.GetType();
    unchecked
    {
        if (type == typeof(int)) return (uint)(int)number;
        if (type == typeof(long)) return (ulong)(long)number;
        if (type == typeof(short)) return (ushort)(short)number;
        if (type == typeof(sbyte)) return (byte)(sbyte)number;
    }
    return null;
}

And here is the test:

short sh = -100;
int i = -100;
long l = -100;

Console.WriteLine(CastToUnsigned(sh));
Console.WriteLine(CastToUnsigned(i));
Console.WriteLine(CastToUnsigned(l));

Outputs

65436
4294967196
18446744073709551516

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Update 10/10/2017

with C# 7.1 pattern matching feature for generic types you can now use switch statement.

thanks to @quinmars for his suggestion.

private static object CastToUnsigned<T>(T number) where T : struct
{
    unchecked
    {
        switch (number)
        {
            case long xlong: return (ulong) xlong;
            case int xint: return (uint)xint;
            case short xshort: return (ushort) xshort;
            case sbyte xsbyte: return (byte) xsbyte;
        }
    }
    return number;
}

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33243440/cast-negative-number-to-unsigned-types-ushort-uint-or-ulong