Which is the recommended way in C# to test if an object is of type string?

In VB.NET I wrote "If TypeOf obj Is String Then".
That meets the requirements:
1. You don't have to instance an object.
2. Doesn't throw exception if obj is null.

I havn't found any solution to that in C#. Does it exist any simple syntax?

Anonymous <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Which is the recommended way in C# to test if an object is of type string?
>
> In VB.NET I wrote "If TypeOf obj Is String Then".
> That meets the requirements:
> 1. You don't have to instance an object.
> 2. Doesn't throw exception if obj is null.
>
> I havn't found any solution to that in C#. Does it exist any simple syntax?

Do you want it to return true if obj is a null reference? If so:

if (obj == null || obj is string)

Otherwise

if (obj is string)

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Anonymous wrote:
> Which is the recommended way in C# to test if an object is of type string?
>
> In VB.NET I wrote "If TypeOf obj Is String Then".
> That meets the requirements:
> 1. You don't have to instance an object.
> 2. Doesn't throw exception if obj is null.
>
> I havn't found any solution to that in C#. Does it exist any simple syntax?

You can either use the is or as operator, depending on if you later have
use for a reference to the string:

if (obj is string) {
...
}

or

string s = obj as string;
if (s != null) {
...
}

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