Input string was not in a correct format #2

double temp;
temp = (double)Convert.ToDouble("1234.5678");

Hey Lads and Lad开发者_JAVA技巧ies, I can't for the life of me figure out why the above line isn't working. The above line gives me a runtime error that says;

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

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

As far as I know the Convert methods use the current locale to do such conversions. In this case I'd guess your current locale would expect a comma as decimal point. Try to set the current locale for your application or the conversion to some language/country where dots are used (e.g. en_US). The method should provide a second optional parameter to provide a IFormatProvider as an alternative solution.

In order to convert string to double without an exception:

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

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

make it culture-insensitive by providing second parameter value CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, for example:

double.Parse("1234.5678", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture) 

first solution (as mentioned in other posts):

double temp = double.Parse("1234.5678", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

second solution - make it default to current thread:

Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = CultureInfo.InvariantCulture;
double temp = double.Parse("1234.5678");

third solution - make it default to block of code:

var prevCurrentCulture = Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture;
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = CultureInfo.InvariantCulture;
...
double temp = double.Parse("1234.5678");
...
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = prevCurrentCulture;

You may be somehow using a european local. In some countries the . and , in numbers is reversed.

Hi as Mario says you must parse it taking into account the regional settings.

double temp = double.Parse("1234.5678", System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture);

Regards.

Check your regional settings. Your decimal symbol needs to be ".".

double temp = double.Parse("1234,5678");

I recommend you use TryParse instead, so you don't need to handle parsing exceptions.

double temp = 0;
if (double.TryParse("123.456", out temp)
{
    Console.WriteLine(string.Format("Parsed temp: {0}", temp);
}
else
{
    Console.WriteLine("Input value was not able to be parsed.");
}

I don't see any problem with the above code.it works fine and prints the value 1234.5678. I have tried it in VS2008. Probably, something to do with locale settings on your machine.

I found the problem when you let the text box empty then this error occurs so try this one to handle it.

An unhandled exception of type System.FormatException occurred in mscorlib.dll Additional information: Input string was not in a correct format.

if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(Txt1.Text)) {int _qty = (int)Convert.ToInt32(Txt1.Text);}