How to use Kotlin when to find if a string is numeric?
Using let for one
fun isInteger(str: String?) = str?.toIntOrNull()?.let { true } ?: false
Version 1 (using toIntOrNull
and when
when as requested)
fun String.intOrString(): Any {
val v = toIntOrNull()
return when(v) {
null -> this
else -> v
}
}
"4".intOrString() // 4
"x".intOrString() // x
Version 2 (using toIntOrNull
and the elvis operator ?:
)
when
is actually not the optimal way to handle this, I only used when
because you explicitely asked for it. This would be more appropriate:
fun String.intOrString() = toIntOrNull() ?: this
Version 3 (using exception handling):
fun String.intOrString() = try { // returns Any
toInt()
} catch(e: NumberFormatException) {
this
}
The toIntOrNull
function in the kotlin.text
package (in kotlin-stdlib
) is probably what you're looking for:
toIntOrNull
fun String.toIntOrNull(): Int? (source)
Platform and version requirements: Kotlin 1.1
Parses the string as an Int number and returns the result or null if the string is not a valid representation of a number.
fun String.toIntOrNull(radix: Int): Int? (source)
Platform and version requirements: Kotlin 1.1
Parses the string as an Int number and returns the result or null if the string is not a valid representation of a number.
More information: https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin.text/to-int-or-null.html