How to Convert string ("0.25500000") less than 1 to Decimal?

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258 views Asked by billy jean At 04 December 2013 at 07:10

I have a string "0.30405" and I need to convert it to a decimal. However it's throwing an error.

What is the solution for this without blowing my head off

Convert.ToDecimal("0.25500000") //throws exception

There are 3 answers

**Håkan Fahlstedt** · Answer 1 · 2013-12-04 07:15:18

Håkan Fahlstedt On 04 December 2013 at 07:15

If that line throws an exception, it's probably because your culture settings doesn't allow comma as decimal separator.

**Ondrej Svejdar** · Answer 2 · 2013-12-04 07:15:57

Ondrej Svejdar On 04 December 2013 at 07:15

Try

Convert.ToDecimal("0.25500000", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

**Ondrej Janacek** · Answer 3 · 2013-12-04 07:16:37

Try using decimal.TryParse() with a culture info specified.

decimal number;
decimal.TryParse("0.25500000", NumberStyles.Number, 
                  CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, out number);

As someone pointed out in comments, in a production code you would probably want to find out if a conversion is successful by

if(decimal.TryParse(...))
{
    // success
}