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Equivalent of New String("") in C#

hi there i have a variable of object type in my C# method

object objReplacer.

i want to check the type of a value returned in another variable and if the value is typeof string then i want the equivalent of this in C#

ObjReplacer = New String("") (This is VB.Net code i want equivalent of this in C#)

kind regards

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Ali Shah

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Thanks for your help but just want to make sure that the following code will work

if (strDBType.GetType() == typeof(char) || strDBType.GetType() == typeof(string) || strDBType.GetType() == typeof(DateTime))
{
objREplacer = string.Empty;
}
else if (strDBType.GetType() == typeof(int))
{
objREplacer = new int();
objREplacer = 0;
}
else if (strDBType.GetType() == typeof(decimal))
{
objREplacer = new decimal();
objREplacer = 0.0;
}
???????

Indrajit Mahajan

hii

you may write it like this:

object o = "Some string";

The static type of the variable is object, but at run time, the type of the variable's referent is string. Therefore, the next line will print "System.String" to the console:

Console.WriteLine(o.GetType());

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