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Question by Grimmy · Mar 14, 2011 at 12:14 PM · stringboolean

How to convert a string to a boolean?

I want to convert "true" to true.

I have seen the mono help at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.convert.toboolean.aspx but when I try this I get an error ("Unkown Identifier")

I get the same error with Boolean.Parse.

Can anyone help?

Thanks!

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avatar image SirGive · Mar 14, 2011 at 01:00 PM 0
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Have you tried outputting the variable? I think Debug.Log(BooleanVariable) would output either true or false.

avatar image yoyo · Mar 14, 2011 at 04:22 PM 0
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"$$anonymous$$ Identifier" doesn't sound like a conversion problem. Can you share your script, there may be something else wrong.

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Answer by Bunny83 · Apr 15, 2014 at 11:48 PM

All you have to do is comparing the string to "true":

     //C#
     bool mybool = someString == "true";

A lot people forget that the compare operators return a boolean value which you can use in an if-statement or assign it to a variable of type bool.

Some prefer to put some brackets like this:

     //C#
     bool mybool = (someString == "true");

You can use "System.Convert.ToBoolean(someString)" as well, but keep in mind that it only works with the string "True" or "False" and will throw an exception if it contains anything else. My approach will return always false unless it's "true". Keep in mind that you can also check for multiple strings. In this case it's best to wrap them in a method:

     //C#
     public static bool ToBool(string aText)
     {
        return aText == "true" || aText == "on" || aText == "yes";
     }

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Answer by poncho · Mar 14, 2011 at 02:30 PM

if the value you get, always is "true", you can make an if like this

string valueYouGet="";
//by this line your variable, valueYouGet should be "true", by your own means
bool mybool = false;
if(valueYouGet == "true")
   mybool = true;

is not exactly a parser, but do the trick

hope this is the answer you are looking for

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Answer by Shkarface-Noori · Apr 15, 2014 at 03:00 PM

you simply should import the type System and call Convert.ToBoolean as:

 import System;
 function Start() {
   print(Convert.ToBoolean("True"));
 }

and is exactly a parser

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well never import system if you really don't need it, not just for converting string to boolean, however if you need it for something heavier, then you can surely use this too

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