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' <snippet1>
Imports System
Class StringParseMethod
Public Shared Sub Main()
' <snippet2>
Dim MyString1 As String = "A"
Dim MyChar As Char = Char.Parse(MyString1)
' MyChar now contains a Unicode "A" character.
' </snippet2>
' <snippet3>
Dim MyString2 As String = "True"
Dim MyBool As Boolean = Boolean.Parse(MyString2)
' MyBool now contains a True Boolean value.
' </snippet3>
' <snippet4>
Dim MyString3 As String = "Thursday"
Dim MyDays As DayOfWeek = CType([Enum].Parse(GetType(DayOfWeek), MyString3), DayOfWeek)
Console.WriteLine("{0:G}", MyDays)
' The result is Thursday.
' </snippet4>
End Sub
End Class
' </snippet1>