need help catch a formatexception error

Question

My workaround solution seems silly but it prevents the error. Is there a better way to do this?

try 
{
myNumber =  Convert.ToInt32(InputRow.Substring(288, 9));  
}
catch (FormatException e)
{
}

Answer 1

int.TryParse could be a good choice

int val = 0;
if(int.TryParse(InputRow.Substring(288, 9), out val))
   // insert val into db