Identify if a string is a number

This will return true if input is all numbers. Don't know if it's any better than TryParse, but it will work.

Regex.IsMatch(input, @"^\d+$")

If you just want to know if it has one or more numbers mixed in with characters, leave off the ^ + and $.

Regex.IsMatch(input, @"\d")

Edit: Actually I think it is better than TryParse because a very long string could potentially overflow TryParse.

You can also use:

using System.Linq;

stringTest.All(char.IsDigit);

It will return true for all Numeric Digits (not float) and false if input string is any sort of alphanumeric.

Please note: stringTest should not be an empty string as this would pass the test of being numeric.

I've used this function several times:

public static bool IsNumeric(object Expression)
{
    double retNum;

    bool isNum = Double.TryParse(Convert.ToString(Expression), System.Globalization.NumberStyles.Any, System.Globalization.NumberFormatInfo.InvariantInfo, out retNum);
    return isNum;
}

But you can also use;

bool b1 = Microsoft.VisualBasic.Information.IsNumeric("1"); //true
bool b2 = Microsoft.VisualBasic.Information.IsNumeric("1aa"); // false

From Benchmarking IsNumeric Options

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int n;
bool isNumeric = int.TryParse("123", out n);

Update As of C# 7:

var isNumeric = int.TryParse("123", out int n);

or if you don't need the number you can discard the out parameter

var isNumeric = int.TryParse("123", out _);

The var s can be replaced by their respective types!