From af3d3350794d686f2968ff3fd8704297bcdd9d04 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Austin Noska <austin.noska@profound-tech.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2021 14:23:23 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] feat: Add TryParse overload method to StringUtils, which
 tries to parse a GUID from a string

---
 CHANGELOG.md                    |  2 ++
 ICD.Common.Utils/StringUtils.cs | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 575d83e..ca2ddf3 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](http://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/)
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
 ## [Unreleased]
+### Added
+ - TryParse overload in StringUtils, attempts to parse a GUID from a string
 
 ## [15.1.0] - 2021-08-03
 ### Added
diff --git a/ICD.Common.Utils/StringUtils.cs b/ICD.Common.Utils/StringUtils.cs
index 83194b5..e56c0a0 100644
--- a/ICD.Common.Utils/StringUtils.cs
+++ b/ICD.Common.Utils/StringUtils.cs
@@ -355,6 +355,27 @@ namespace ICD.Common.Utils
 			return TryConvert(Convert.ToBoolean, value, out result);
 		}
 
+		/// <summary>
+		/// Attempts to parse the string as a guid.
+		/// </summary>
+		/// <param name="value"></param>
+		/// <param name="result"></param>
+		/// <returns></returns>
+		[PublicAPI]
+		public static bool TryParse([NotNull] string value, out Guid result)
+		{
+			try
+			{
+				result = new Guid(value);
+				return true;
+			}
+			catch (Exception)
+			{
+				result = Guid.Empty;
+				return false;
+			}
+		}
+
 		/// <summary>
 		/// Attempts to parse the string via the given conversion function.
 		/// </summary>