Question

I have a weird problem in converting a string to double in .NET 3.5. Here is my code:

   dbl = double.Parse(str);

When str is string with a simple double like “5.67” the result for dbl is 567.0.

Answer 1

I’d guess this is localisation issues and you need to use the overload that specifies a format provider.

The issue is likely that it is expecting , as a decimal separator and . as a thousand separator (and thus ignoring it in effect).

Example to reproduce possible issue:

string input = "5.67";
Console.WriteLine(Double.Parse(input, new CultureInfo("en-gb")));
Console.WriteLine(Double.Parse(input, new CultureInfo("de-de")));

This outputs:

5.67
567