CommonTypeConvertFromString(String, Type, CultureInfo, Boolean) Method

public static Object? TypeConvertFromString(
	string value,
	Type type,
	CultureInfo? culture,
	bool suppressException = true
)

Public Shared Function TypeConvertFromString ( 
	value As String,
	type As Type,
	culture As CultureInfo,
	Optional suppressException As Boolean = true
) As Object

public:
static Object^ TypeConvertFromString(
	String^ value, 
	Type^ type, 
	CultureInfo^ culture, 
	bool suppressException = true
)

Gemstone.Common.TypeConvertFromString = function(value, type, culture, suppressException);

Parameters

value  String

Source string to convert to type.

type  Type

Type to convert string to.

culture  CultureInfo

CultureInfo to use for the conversion.

suppressException  Boolean  (Optional)

Set to true to suppress conversion exceptions and return null; otherwise, false

Return Value

This function makes use of a TypeConverter to convert value to the specified type, the best way to make sure value can be converted back to its original type is to use the same TypeConverter to convert the original object to a String; see the TypeConvertToString(Object) method for an easy way to do this.

This function varies from ConvertToTypeT(String, CultureInfo) in that it will use the default value for the type parameter if value is empty or null.

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