I have a variable   int? a = Int32.TryParse(b);   How can I make it that a becomes a null if b is found not to be an integer?
I'm wanting to parse a string into a nullable int in C#.  ie. I want to get back either the int value of the string or null if it can't be parsed.  I was kind of hoping that this would work  int? val = stringVal as int?;   But that won't work, so the way I'm doing it now is I've written this extension method  public static int? ParseNullableInt(this string value) {     if (value == null || value.Trim() == string.Empty)     {         return null;     }     else     {         try         {             return int.Parse(value);         }         catch         {             return null;         }     } }      Is there a better way of doing this?  EDIT:  Thanks for the TryParse suggestions, I did know about that, but it worked out about the same.  I'm more interested in knowing if there is a built-in framework method that will parse directly into a nullable int?
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