Why do I get a FormatException when converting a string to a float?

Question

When I try to convert a string to float:

Console.WriteLine(float.Parse(\"6.59\"));

it throws an exception:

Unhandled Exc

Answer 1

The single argument Parse method uses the current culture to parse the string. If your current culture uses some other decimal separator, this will fail.

Try using the invariant culture:

float.Parse("6.59", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)