Why double.TryParse(“0.0000”, out doubleValue) returns false ?

Question

I am trying to parse string \"0.0000\" with double.TryParse() but I have no idea why would it return false in this particular example. When I pass integer-like stri

Answer 1

TryParse uses the current culture by default. And if your current culture uses a decimal seperator different from ., it can't parse 0.0000 as you intend. So you need to pass in CultureInfo.InvariantCulture.

var numberStyle = NumberStyles.AllowLeadingWhite |
                 NumberStyles.AllowTrailingWhite |
                 NumberStyles.AllowLeadingSign |
                 NumberStyles.AllowDecimalPoint |
                 NumberStyles.AllowThousands |
                 NumberStyles.AllowExponent;//Choose what you need
double.TryParse( "0.0000", numberStyle, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, out myVar)