Is there a parsing of bool like int in Dart?

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Bool has no methods.

var val="True";
bool b = val.toLowerCase() == 'true';

should be easy enough.

With recent Dart versions with extension method support the code could be made look more like for int, num, float.

extension BoolParsing on String {
  bool parseBool() {
    return this.toLowerCase() == 'true';
  }
}
  

void main() {
  bool b = 'tRuE'.parseBool();
  print('${b.runtimeType} - $b');
}

See also https://dart.dev/guides/language/extension-methods

To the comment from @remonh87
If you want exact 'false' parsing you can use

extension BoolParsing on String {
  bool parseBool() {
    if (this.toLowerCase() == 'true') {
      return true;
    } else if (this.toLowerCase() == 'false') {
      return false;
    }
    
    throw '"$this" can not be parsed to boolean.';
  }
}

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