simple type Conversion from string to double

[Krugger404]

Hi, I have a very simple, yet nagging problem. I am trying to convert some string containing numbers and dots to double. The thing is that double convert (Convert.ToDouble) crashes if the string to convert contains a dot (e.g. "10.10") Can you please help me around this problem. Thanks:confused: Krugger

[Stefan Troschuetz]

You're probably running the code on a machine where the standard culture of the OS and consequently of your application usually use another decimal separator (e.g. in german os the comma), so you have to use an overload that takes an IFormatProvider providing proper culture-specific formatting information.

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[Sandeep Akhare]

Simple try this string str = "10.23"; double db; db=Double.Parse(str); i think it might help you :)

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[Krugger404]

Thank you. In fact, i just figured it out myself but thank you for the tip. It indeed has to do with the locale. :) Krugger

[Guffa]

You can use CultureInfo.InvariantCulture to easily get a number format where the decimal separator definitely is a period. string s = "3.1415926536"; double p = double.Parse(s, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

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