Idiomatic work with nullable values in Kotlin: conversion and safe access

Hi! I recently started learning Kotlin after Java and can't get used to the strict nullable type system. I have several scenarios where I'm confused about how to properly handle null. For example, I have a function that returns a nullable String? from the database. I need to: 1. Check if the value is not null 2. If not null, convert it to Int (parsing) 3. If parsing fails or the value is null — return 0 I wrote this code, but it looks terrible: ```kotlin fun parseNullableInt(value: String?): Int { if (value != null) { return try { value.toInt() } catch (e: NumberFormatException) { 0 } } else { return 0 } } ``` It works, but surely there is a more concise and idiomatic w