decimal.TryParse() drops leading “1”

Question

Short and sweet version:

On one machine out of around a hundred test machines decimal.TryParse() is converting \"1.01\" to 0.01

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Answer 1

see how the regional settings are set for this computer it might be that "." is set as thousand separator not as decimal separator. Try using Decimal.TryParse (String, NumberStyles, IFormatProvider, out Decimal val) and pass NumberFormatInfo created with decimal separator "."