C# version of VB6/VBA's Val function

Here is some code to emulate VB6/VBA's Val function in C#. I found the original http://www.dreamincode.net/code/snippet1821.htm but it needed some changes to work correctly.

using System.Text.RegularExpressions; using System; namespace ValinCS { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { Console.WriteLine(Val("AAA234")); Console.WriteLine(Val("1234asdv")); Console.WriteLine(Val(" 345")); Console.WriteLine(Val("1.2345f")); Console.WriteLine(Val(" 1 2")); Console.WriteLine(Val("")); Console.WriteLine(Val("12")); } private static int Val(string value) { string returnVal = string.Empty; int tryInt = 0; //^ specifies that the match has to start at the start of the string //Trim() trims both ends of the string before matching MatchCollection collection = Regex.Matches(value.Trim(), "^\\d+"); foreach (Match match in collection) { returnVal += match.ToString(); } //attempt conversion to int int.TryParse(returnVal,out tryInt); return tryInt; } } }