Bool Variable and string value compare in C#

Question

Hello.

If I declared a bool isTrue = false; // init it to false

and I can get the value from a string strVal = T; // I assumed it is the TRUE value

I heard it is not a good code style to compare string in C# like

if (isTrue.tostring() == strVal) {}.

Some time, I covert the the string variable to enum then I can compare it more convenient.

Is there any good method to do it?

Answer 1

There is no need to convert boolean values to strings in order to compare the two. You can simply compare the two boolean values directly:

if (isTrue == boolVal) {}

Update: (following updated question)

You can parse a string into a boolean and use the resulting boolean in your comparison (as above), using either bool.Parse or bool.TryParse.

Answer 2

Yes, you parse the string into a boolean first.

Try this:

bool someBool = false; 

string boolVal = "true";
bool stringBool;
bool.TryParse(boolVal, out stringBool);

if (someBool == boolVal) 
{

}

Alternatively to handle 'T' and 'F' try these methods:

public bool ParseString(string maybeBool)
{
    return ParseString(maybeBool, false);
}

public bool ParseString(string maybeBool, bool def)
{
    bool stringBool;
    if (bool.TryParse(maybeBool, out stringBool))
        return stringBool;

    if (string.Equals(maybeBool, "T", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
        return true;

    if (string.Equals(maybeBool, "F", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
        return false;

    return def;
}

Answer 3

Try bool.Parse() method instead.

Answer 4

bool.Parse(boolVal) == isTrue 

Answer 5

you may compare boolean type instead.

bool temp = bool.Parse(strVal);

if(isTrue == temp)

Answer 6

If you really want to do string comparisons:

if (string.Equals(isTrue.ToString(), strValue)) { }

Answer 7

Yet another version which i use a lot is simply Convert.ToBoolean(stringFromBoolVal)

regards