Convert 7.346000E-001 or 7.3460000E+000 to Double

Question

I'm trying to convert a string value to Double but I sill get error saying that the format is incorrect.

My Strings are represented like this : 7.346000E-001, 7.3460000E+000

Is there another way to convert them or I need to truncate the string into two parts and do the calculation by myself to get the real value ?

How are you doing the conversion? `Convert.ToDouble("7.3460000E-001")` works for me, are you sure you're not using culture-specific parsing? — millimoose, Aug 07 '12 at 12:21
you should be able to convert in one step, what code did you use ? — Felice Pollano, Aug 07 '12 at 12:22
@Wassim What's the value of `CultureInfo.CurrentCulture` then? — millimoose, Aug 07 '12 at 12:23
Convert.ToDouble("7.3460000E-001",CultureInfo.InvariantCulture) would help if you are on a culture using , as a decimal separator — Felice Pollano, Aug 07 '12 at 12:23

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 07 '12 at 12:27

Try CultureInfo.InvariantCulture with double.parse

System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new CultureInfo("fr-FR"); // just to simulate french culture
double d = double.Parse("7.3460000E-001",CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
Console.Write(d);

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:27

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French culture (I assumed it from your profile) uses comma instead of the dot as the decimal separator.

Solution described here: C# float.tryparse for French Culture

edited May 23 '17 at 12:27

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answered Aug 07 '12 at 12:24

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Convert 7.346000E-001 or 7.3460000E+000 to Double

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