title: Is there a mono (.Net) equivalent to the Scanner-class in Java
body: <p>In Java there is a nice class called Scanner for reading strings and streams of a certain format to data-structures like integers, floats,... Is there any equivalent in Mono? In .Net there is a binary-reader, but it reads the data as binaries. I want a class that read the data by parsing it from a string.</p>
  
  <p>EDIT: reaction on the current answers, I know most of the data-types have a parse-method, but the problem with these are, they don't read the string sequentially. In Java you simply initialize the object, and by activating methods, you sequentially read the data-types.</p>