Covert vs parse

Question

Different between Covert vs parse ?

Suthish Nair · Answer

Convert vs Parse.. spell check ... Convert means Change the nature, purpose etc.. Parse means an act of or the result obtained by parsing a string or a text. Convert class makes it easier to convert between all the base types which internally calls Parse method. Parse takes in a object and attempts to convert it to a type. Convert does not throw a ArgumentNullException while Parse does.

Manas Mohapatra · Answer

int.Parse(string s) method converts the string to integer and Convert.ToInt32(string s) does the same. If string s is null, then Parse() will throw ArgumentNullException where Convert() doesn't. If string s is other than integer value, then both Parse and Convert will throw FormatException. If string s represents out of integer ranges, then both Parse and Convert will throw OverflowException.

Rajeev Punhani · Answer

Hi Ashish, The main difference between Convert and parse is that Convert handle null values and return default value for that type. eg : string s=null; int result = Convert .ToInt32(s); //In this case 0 will be returned but when using parse we will get ArgumentNullException. If the above solution is helpful then, accept the answer.

Covert vs parse

Answers (3)