string to double issue, dot is removed

Question

I have a string value, containing longitude or latitude value.

However, when I try to convert this to a double, I end up with a number where the dot is removed and placed at the end.

This is not what I want. What am I missing?

This is the value I get: 200,5,1.4928184,0.1609203 and this is the method I use to get the value:

 var responseBytes = ms.ToArray();
                var encoding = new System.Text.ASCIIEncoding();
                var coords = encoding.GetString(responseBytes);
                var parts = coords.Split(new char[] { ',' });


//this piece of code returns me wrong values! When I debug this piece parts[2] is exactly 1.4928184
                return new Coordinaat(Double.Parse(parts[2]),
                    Double.Parse(parts[3]));

See code example below for constructor:

 public Coordinaat(double lat, double lon)
        {
            this.Latitude = lat;
            this.Longitude = lon;
        }

Output: lat 114928184 lon 01609203 --> where did my dots go to??

Answer 1

You are probably under a culture (e.g German) which is causing this effect. Use CultureInfo.InvariantCultre while parsing.

Double.Parse("123.22",CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)