How to convert 0 and 1 to false and true

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I have a method which is connecting to a database via Odbc  The stored procedure which I m  calling has a return value which from the database side is a  Char   Right now I m grabbing that return value as a string and using it in a simple if statement  I really don t like the idea of comparing a string like this when only two values can come back from the database  0 and 1   OdbcCommand fetchCommand   new OdbcCommand storedProc  conn    fetchCommand CommandType   CommandType StoredProcedure  fetchCommand Parameters AddWithValue   column    myCustomParameter   fetchCommand Parameters Add   myReturnValue   OdbcType Char  1               Direction   ParameterDirection Output  fetchCommand ExecuteNonQuery     string returnValue   fetchCommand Parameters   myReturnValue   Value ToString    if  returnValue     1         return true       What would be the proper way to handle this situation  I ve tried  Convert ToBoolean    which seemed like the obvious answer but I ran into the  String was not recognized as a valid Boolean    exception being thrown  Am I missing something here  or is there another way to make  1  and  0  act like true and false   Thanks

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In a single line of code   bool bVal   Convert ToBoolean Convert ToInt16 returnValue

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How about   return  returnValue     1      or as suggested below   return  returnValue     0      The correct one will depend on what you are looking for as a success result

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Set return type to numeric - you don t need a char  so don t use it   a numeric value  0 1  can be converted with Convert ToBoolean num   Otherwise  use Kevin s answer

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If you don t want to convert Just use    bool  status   status     1    true   false    Perhaps you will return the values as you want

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returnValue     1    false   true

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Or if the Boolean value is not been returned  you can do something like this   bool boolValue    returnValue     1

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If you want the conversion to always succeed  probably the best way to convert the string would be to consider  1  as true and anything else as false  as Kevin does    If you wanted the conversion to fail if anything other than  1  or  0  is returned  then the following would suffice  you could put it in a helper method      if  returnValue     1         return true    else if  returnValue     0         return false    else       throw new FormatException  The string is not a recognized as a valid boolean value

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You can use that form    return returnValue Equals  1     true   false    Or more simply  thanks to Jurijs Kastanovs    return returnValue Equals  1

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My solution  vb net    Private Function ConvertToBoolean p1 As Object  As Boolean     If p1 Is Nothing Then Return False     If IsDBNull p1  Then Return False     If p1 ToString    1  Then Return True     If p1 ToString ToLower    true  Then Return True     Return False End Function

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