Arguments

The Arguments type is provided by Telefrag to help handle parameters provided by humans on Telegram which will always be provided as a string but may not only need to be interpretted as integers, longs, dates, but may also need to be split into parameters based on a delimiter.

Any time Telefrag parses text it knows is from a Telegram user it is often presented as an Arguments object so that it can be queried easily.

Let's take this example input provided by a user:

var a = new Arguments("/kick @bob 40 Go Away");

, here are some example evaluations and their results:

Expression	Type	Example Result
a[0]	Argument	"/kick"
a[1]	Argument	"@bob"
a[2]	Argument	"40"
(int)a[2]	int	40 (implicit conversion avail)
a[2].ValueAsInt	int	40
a[2].IsNumber	bool	true
a[4]	Argument	"Away"
a[5]	Argument	null
a[4].Exists	bool	true
a[5].Exists	bool	false
a[2] as string	string	"@bob" (implicit conversion avail)
a[2].Value	string	"@bob"
a[3..]	Argument	"Go Away"
a[^1]	Argument	"Away"