How do I simulate val(mid(MyString,2,1))?

[dlunday]

I think strong typing is gonna drive me nuts

I have a string, say MyString = "12345" and I want to convert the second character to an int. I VB it was easy: val(mid(MyString,2,1)) = 2

In C# its somewhat tougher, since I can't convert a string OR a char[] to an integer.

These don't work:

int i = MyString.Substring(2,1);
int i =MyString.ToCharArray(2,1);

Nor can I cast my way out of this:

int i = (char)MyString.Substring(2,1);
int i =(char)MyString.ToCharArray(2,1);

Am I missing something obvious, or have I simply butted heads with strong typing? What's the most elegant solution out of this? Overloading the string class?

 

[dlunday]

Never mind. I answered my own question. I was looking at it backwards. Figured it should be in the String class somewhere. Instead its in the Decimal class.. this works fine.

Decimal dc = Decimal.Parse("123"

dc = 123

Ahh, the joys of programming