I am trying to do courch search as snap below but the string have to change to int but l do not know how to do it

The srrch are both inlude number and string as below

public ActionResult CourseSearch(String q) { var courses = Getstcourse(q); return PartialView(courses); } private List Getstcourse(string serachstring) { return db.Courses.Where(a => a.Title.Contains(serachstring)).ToList();

}

this the courchserch as

@model IEnumerable

}

@foreach (var item in Model) {

@item.Course.Title

how to change form string to int and string to serch for courch detial

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