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

You are probably using a culture that uses the , as a decimal seperator.

You could try to Parse using the InvariantCulture:

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