Question

I have numbers outputted from a FORTRAN program in the following format:

 0.12961924D+01

How can I parse this as a double using C#?

I have tried the following without success:

// note leading space, FORTRAN pads its output so that positive and negative
// numbers are the same string length
string s = " 0.12961924D+01";
double v1 = Double.Parse(s)
double v2 = Double.Parse(s, NumberStyles.Float)

Answer 1

I would first do some manipulation of this string to get it from FORTRAN to .NET formatting:

• Trim any leading space; if the negative sign is there we want it but we don’t want spaces.
• Replace “D” with “E”.

The below should get you what you need:

string s = " 0.12961924D+01";
s = s.Trim().Replace("D", "E");
//s should now look like "0.12961924E01"    
double v2 = Double.Parse(s, NumberStyles.Float);