# String to integer tuple API

**URL:** <https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/string-to-integer-tuple-api/24253>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Tags:** strings, parsing, integer\
**Created:** [July 26, 2019, 10:23am UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/string-to-integer-tuple-api/24253 "2019-07-26T10:23:34Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 11:02am UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/string-to-integer-tuple-api/24253/4 "2019-07-26T11:02:47Z")

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> [@jola](#):
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> For 1. I disagree with you, I consider it perfectly elixiry.

I respect your opinion, but I would like to direct you to the official Elixir documentation, in specific to this part:

> In Elixir, we avoid using `try/rescue` because **we don’t use errors for control flow**. We take errors literally: they are reserved for unexpected and/or exceptional situations.

Source: [https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/try-catch-and-rescue.html#errors](https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/try-catch-and-rescue.html#errors)

> [@NobbZ](#):
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> , rasie should only happen if the `base` is invalid.

I am aware of this. My objective here is to find out if there is a parsing function in Elixir that doesn’t throw and always returns a tagged tupple. I understand this is not the case, correct?

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