Question

I am parsing an xml file and I am trying to assign a value which I is read from xml file into a double variable.

here is what my code looks like:

double someDouble = Convert.ToDouble(someString);

problem here is, when executing this line of code, i get

An unhandled exception of type ‘System.FormatException’ occurred in
mscorlib.dll

Additional information: Input string was not in a correct format.

When I debug, i see that the value of someString is “45.00000000” in the “Locals” view.

As far as I know Convert.ToDouble supports such converting strings into double.

NOTE: just to be sure I also tried

double someDouble = Convert.ToDouble(someString.Trim('"'));

Answer 1

It works fine for me.

My psychic debugging skills tell me that you’re running in a culture that uses , as the decimal separator.
Pass CultureInfo.InvariantCulture.